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Longitudinal Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Evolution of Microstates and Macrostates in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.
Cancer Research · · Journal Article · Open access
Frankhouser, Zhao + more
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Clinically relevant chronic myeloid leukemia phenotypes emerge clearly at the pseudobulk (macrostate) level despite continuous single-cell transcriptional microstates.
- Why it matters: The field lacks a way to extract discrete, clinically meaningful disease states from noisy single-cell continua that can blur phenotype boundaries.
- What they did: The authors compared CML scRNA-seq with bulk transcriptomics and applied state-transition theory to attribute phenotype state changes to cell type–specific contributions.
- The result: Their framework explains why discrete disease phenotypes are hidden at single-cell scale but become apparent when aggregated, enabling new insights into CML evolution and a strategy for other cancers.
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