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Data-Driven Kidney Transplant Phenotyping as a Histology-Independent Framework for Biomarker Discovery.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Aug 2021
Buscher Konrad, Heitplatz Barbara, van Marck Veerle, Song Jian, Loismann Sophie, Rixen Rebecca, Hüchtmann Birte, Kurian Sunil, Ehinger Erik, Wolf Dennis, Ley Klaus, Pavenstädt Hermann, Reuter Stefan
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BACKGROUND: In transplant medicine, clinical decision making largely relies on histology of biopsy specimens. However, histology suffers from low specificity, sensitivity, and reproducibility, leading to suboptimal stratification of patients. We developed a histology-independent immune framework of kidney graft homeostasis and rejection. METHODS: We applied tailored RNA deconvolution for leukocyte enumeration and...
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