Modeling continuous cell-level covariates
Collapse using mean value for pseudobulk data
Run on 2024-02-28 16:53:58
1 Introduction
Since read counts are summed across cells in a pseudobulk approach, modeling continuous cell-level covariates also requires a collapsing step. Here we summarize the values of a variable from a set of cells using the mean, and store the value for each cell type. Including these variables in a regression formula uses the summarized values from the corresponding cell type.
We demonstrate this feature on a lightly modified analysis of PBMCs from 8 individuals stimulated with interferon-β (Kang, et al, 2018, Nature Biotech).
2 Standard processing
Here is the code from the main vignette:
library(dreamlet)
library(muscat)
library(ExperimentHub)
library(scater)
# Download data, specifying EH2259 for the Kang, et al study
eh <- ExperimentHub()
sce <- eh[["EH2259"]]
# only keep singlet cells with sufficient reads
sce <- sce[rowSums2(counts(sce) > 0) > 0, ]
sce <- sce[, colData(sce)$multiplets == "singlet"]
# compute QC metrics
qc <- perCellQCMetrics(sce)
# remove cells with few or many detected genes
ol <- isOutlier(metric = qc$detected, nmads = 2, log = TRUE)
sce <- sce[, !ol]
# set variable indicating stimulated (stim) or control (ctrl)
sce$StimStatus <- sce$stimIn many datasets, continuous cell-level variables could be mapped reads, gene count, mitochondrial rate, etc. There are no continuous cell-level variables in this dataset, so we can simulate two from a normal distribution:
sce$value1 <- rnorm(ncol(sce))
sce$value2 <- rnorm(ncol(sce))3 Pseudobulk
Now compute the pseudobulk using standard code:
sce$id <- paste0(sce$StimStatus, sce$ind)
# Create pseudobulk
pb <- aggregateToPseudoBulk(sce,
assay = "counts",
cluster_id = "cell",
sample_id = "id",
verbose = FALSE
)The means per variable, cell type, and sample are stored in the pseudobulk SingleCellExperiment object:
metadata(pb)$aggr_means## # A tibble: 128 × 5
## # Groups: cell [8]
## cell id cluster value1 value2
## <fct> <fct> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 B cells ctrl101 3.96 0.0806 -0.182
## 2 B cells ctrl1015 4.00 -0.0719 -0.00771
## 3 B cells ctrl1016 4 -0.0458 0.103
## 4 B cells ctrl1039 4.04 0.151 -0.184
## 5 B cells ctrl107 4 0.177 0.0554
## 6 B cells ctrl1244 4 -0.0712 -0.157
## 7 B cells ctrl1256 4.01 -0.0736 -0.0412
## 8 B cells ctrl1488 4.02 -0.0549 0.0564
## 9 B cells stim101 4.09 -0.0665 -0.0363
## 10 B cells stim1015 4.06 0.0301 -0.0316
## # ℹ 118 more rows4 Analysis
Including these variables in a regression formula uses the summarized values from the corresponding cell type. This happens behind the scenes, so the user doesn’t need to distinguish bewteen sample-level variables stored in colData(pb) and cell-level variables stored in metadata(pb)$aggr_means.
Variance partition and hypothesis testing proceeds as ususal:
form <- ~ StimStatus + value1 + value2
# Normalize and apply voom/voomWithDreamWeights
res.proc <- processAssays(pb, form, min.count = 5)
# run variance partitioning analysis
vp.lst <- fitVarPart(res.proc, form)
# Summarize variance fractions genome-wide for each cell type
plotVarPart(vp.lst, label.angle = 60)
# Differential expression analysis within each assay
res.dl <- dreamlet(res.proc, form)
# dreamlet results include coefficients for value1 and value2
res.dl## class: dreamletResult
## assays(8): B cells CD14+ Monocytes ... Megakaryocytes NK cells
## Genes:
## min: 164
## max: 5262
## details(7): assay n_retain ... n_errors error_initial
## coefNames(4): (Intercept) StimStatusstim value1 value25 Session Info
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