RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 A robust statistical framework to detect multiple sources of hidden variation in single-cell transcriptomes JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 151217 DO 10.1101/151217 A1 Donghyung Lee A1 Anthony Cheng A1 Duygu Ucar YR 2017 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/18/151217.abstract AB Single-cell RNA-Sequencing data often harbor variation from multiple correlated sources, which cannot be accurately detected by existing methods. Here we present a novel and robust statistical framework that can capture correlated sources of variation in an iterative fashion: iteratively adjusted surrogate variable analysis (IA-SVA). We demonstrate that IA-SVA accurately captures hidden variation in single cell RNA-Sequencing data arising from cell contamination, cell-cycle stage, and differences in cell types along with the marker genes associated with the source.