Distilling Direct Effects via Conditional Differential Gene Expression Analysis
Jiaqi Gu, Andrew J. Skelton, James Staley, Pierce Oran Popson, Lei Peng, Xiaoyu Song, Juliet K. Knowles, Zihuai He
The paper introduces conditional differential gene expression analysis to distinguish direct from mediated gene effects in RNA sequencing data, finding most differentially expressed genes are not directly causal.
bioRxiv · Sep 29, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics