PMID- 37180102 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230921 LR - 20240310 IS - 1664-3224 (Electronic) IS - 1664-3224 (Linking) VI - 14 DP - 2023 TI - Prediction of HLA genotypes from single-cell transcriptome data. PG - 1146826 LID - 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1146826 [doi] LID - 1146826 AB - The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) locus plays a central role in adaptive immune function and has significant clinical implications for tissue transplant compatibility and allelic disease associations. Studies using bulk-cell RNA sequencing have demonstrated that HLA transcription may be regulated in an allele-specific manner and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has the potential to better characterize these expression patterns. However, quantification of allele-specific expression (ASE) for HLA loci requires sample-specific reference genotyping due to extensive polymorphism. While genotype prediction from bulk RNA sequencing is well described, the feasibility of predicting HLA genotypes directly from single-cell data is unknown. Here we evaluate and expand upon several computational HLA genotyping tools by comparing predictions from human single-cell data to gold-standard, molecular genotyping. The highest 2-field accuracy averaged across all loci was 76% by arcasHLA and increased to 86% using a composite model of multiple genotyping tools. We also developed a highly accurate model (AUC 0.93) for predicting HLA-DRB345 copy number in order to improve genotyping accuracy of the HLA-DRB locus. Genotyping accuracy improved with read depth and was reproducible at repeat sampling. Using a metanalytic approach, we also show that HLA genotypes from PHLAT and OptiType can generate ASE ratios that are highly correlated (R(2) = 0.8 and 0.94, respectively) with those derived from gold-standard genotyping. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Solomon, Zheng, Dillon, Goldman, Hourigan, Heath and Khatri. FAU - Solomon, Benjamin D AU - Solomon BD AD - Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States. FAU - Zheng, Hong AU - Zheng H AD - Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States. AD - Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Dillon, Laura W AU - Dillon LW AD - Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States. FAU - Goldman, Jason D AU - Goldman JD AD - Swedish Center for Research and Innovation, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, United States. AD - Providence St. Joseph Health, Renton, WA, United States. AD - Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States. FAU - Hourigan, Christopher S AU - Hourigan CS AD - Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States. FAU - Heath, James R AU - Heath JR AD - Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, United States. AD - Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States. FAU - Khatri, Purvesh AU - Khatri P AD - Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States. AD - Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States. LA - eng GR - R01 CA264090/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - U19 AI109662/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - U19 AI167903/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R38 HL143615/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - U19 AI057229/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI125197/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230425 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Immunol JT - Frontiers in immunology JID - 101560960 RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class II) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Transcriptome MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - *HLA Antigens/genetics MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics MH - Genotype MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/genetics PMC - PMC10167300 OTO - NOTNLM OT - HLA genotype OT - HLA typing algorithm OT - allele specific expression OT - human leukocyte antigen (HLA) OT - major histocompatibility (MHC) OT - next-generation sequencing data (NGS) OT - single-cell sequencing (scRNA-seq) COIS- PK is a shareholder and a consultant to Inflammatix, Inc. JH is founder and board member of Isoplexis and PACT Pharma. JG declared contracted research with Gilead, Lilly, and Regeneron. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2023/05/14 13:10 MHDA- 2023/05/16 06:42 PMCR- 2023/01/01 CRDT- 2023/05/14 12:01 PHST- 2023/01/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/04/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/05/14 13:10 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/05/16 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/05/14 12:01 [entrez] PHST- 2023/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1146826 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Immunol. 2023 Apr 25;14:1146826. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1146826. eCollection 2023.