PMID- 34967113 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220405 LR - 20220520 IS - 1552-4930 (Electronic) IS - 1552-4922 (Linking) VI - 101 IP - 4 DP - 2022 Apr TI - A simple strategy for sample annotation error detection in cytometry datasets. PG - 351-360 LID - 10.1002/cyto.a.24525 [doi] AB - Mislabeling samples or data with the wrong participant information can affect study integrity and lead investigators to draw inaccurate conclusions. Quality control to prevent these types of errors is commonly embedded into the analysis of genomic datasets, but a similar identification strategy is not standard for cytometric data. Here, we present a method for detecting sample identification errors in cytometric data using expression of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I alleles. We measured HLA-A*02 and HLA-B*07 expression in three longitudinal samples from 41 participants using a 33-marker CyTOF panel designed to identify major immune cell types. 3/123 samples (2.4%) showed HLA allele expression that did not match their longitudinal pairs. Furthermore, these same three samples' cytometric signature did not match qPCR HLA class I allele data, suggesting that they were accurately identified as mismatches. We conclude that this technique is useful for detecting sample-labeling errors in cytometric analyses of longitudinal data. This technique could also be used in conjunction with another method, like GWAS or PCR, to detect errors in cross-sectional data. We suggest widespread adoption of this or similar techniques will improve the quality of clinical studies that utilize cytometry. CI - (c) 2021 International Society for Advancement of Cytometry. FAU - Smithmyer, Megan E AU - Smithmyer ME AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1005-0621 AD - Center for Interventional Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - Wiedeman, Alice E AU - Wiedeman AE AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7329-7288 AD - Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - Skibinski, David A G AU - Skibinski DAG AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8528-2278 AD - Center for Interventional Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. AD - Nexelis, 645 Elliot Avenue West, Suite 300, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - Savage, Adam K AU - Savage AK AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1913-5485 AD - Allen Institute for Immunology, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - Acosta-Vega, Carolina AU - Acosta-Vega C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0993-5465 AD - Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - Scheiding, Sheila AU - Scheiding S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5466-9568 AD - Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - Gersuk, Vivian H AU - Gersuk VH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4123-9926 AD - Center for Systems Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - O'Rourke, Colin AU - O'Rourke C AD - Center for Interventional Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - Long, S Alice AU - Long SA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0281-1240 AD - Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - Buckner, Jane H AU - Buckner JH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9005-1885 AD - Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. FAU - Speake, Cate AU - Speake C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1480-4272 AD - Center for Interventional Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20211229 PL - United States TA - Cytometry A JT - Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology JID - 101235694 SB - IM MH - Alleles MH - *Cross-Sectional Studies MH - Humans MH - Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction OTO - NOTNLM OT - cytometry OT - human leukocyte antigen OT - quality control OT - reproducible research OT - sample mix-up OT - sample swap EDAT- 2021/12/31 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/06 06:00 CRDT- 2021/12/30 05:57 PHST- 2021/11/19 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/09/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/12/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/12/31 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/06 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/12/30 05:57 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/cyto.a.24525 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cytometry A. 2022 Apr;101(4):351-360. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.24525. Epub 2021 Dec 29.