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  • Genomics
  • Computational Biology
  • Statistical Genetics

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  • Gene relationships are crucial for biological insights but are often local, nonlinear, and challenging to model with large datasets.
  • Existing dependence measures struggle with local gene relationships or are computationally intensive.
  • Cell-specific gene networks offer a promising approach to characterize gene interactions at a granular level.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel, robust, and computationally efficient dependence measure for analyzing local gene relationships.
  • To introduce the averaged Local Density Gap (aLDG) and its minibatch variant for characterizing gene interactions.
  • To demonstrate the utility of aLDG in various genomics applications, including gene relationship estimation and trajectory analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Developed cell-specific gene networks to model gene relationships at the single-cell level.
  • Introduced the averaged Local Density Gap (aLDG) by averaging cell-specific relationships.
  • Utilized a consistent nonparametric estimator for robustness and explored minibatch averaging for structured data.
  • Applied aLDG to pairwise gene relationship estimation, cell trajectory bifurcation detection, and spatial transcriptomics visualization.

Main Results:

  • The averaged Local Density Gap (aLDG) effectively detects nonlinear and nonmonotone gene relationships.
  • aLDG demonstrates robustness at both population and empirical levels.
  • Averaging over minibatchs highlights local structure changes, improving analysis of spatially or temporally structured data.
  • aLDG and its variant outperform existing methods in simulations and real-world genomic data analysis.

Conclusions:

  • aLDG provides a powerful new tool for understanding complex, local gene dependencies in genomics.
  • The minibatch variant of aLDG enhances the analysis of structured biological data, such as spatial transcriptomics.
  • This approach offers significant advantages over existing methods for gene relationship inference and biological discovery.