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Contrastive latent variable modeling with application to case-control sequencing experiments (2102.06731v1)

Published 12 Feb 2021 in stat.ME, q-bio.GN, and q-bio.QM

Abstract: High-throughput RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) technologies are powerful tools for understanding cellular state. Often it is of interest to quantify and summarize changes in cell state that occur between experimental or biological conditions. Differential expression is typically assessed using univariate tests to measure gene-wise shifts in expression. However, these methods largely ignore changes in transcriptional correlation. Furthermore, there is a need to identify the low-dimensional structure of the gene expression shift to identify collections of genes that change between conditions. Here, we propose contrastive latent variable models designed for count data to create a richer portrait of differential expression in sequencing data. These models disentangle the sources of transcriptional variation in different conditions, in the context of an explicit model of variation at baseline. Moreover, we develop a model-based hypothesis testing framework that can test for global and gene subset-specific changes in expression. We test our model through extensive simulations and analyses with count-based gene expression data from perturbation and observational sequencing experiments. We find that our methods can effectively summarize and quantify complex transcriptional changes in case-control experimental sequencing data.

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