A Measure of Transcriptional Dyscoordination for Quantifying Aging in Single Cells
Yilin Yang, Paul R. Hess, Xinyi E. Chen, Sijia Huang, Marcos G. Teneche, Hanzhi Wang, Karl N. Miller, Andrew E. Davis, Charlene Miciano, Kelly Yichen Li, Sainath Mamde, Kevin Yuk-Lap Yip, Bing Ren, Qian Yang, Elizabeth W. Smoot, , Nancy Ruonan Zhang
This paper introduces a measure of transcriptional dyscoordination to quantify aging in single cells, showing it increases with age and is linked to cellular processes like senescence and genome instability.
bioRxiv · Oct 7, 2026 · PreprintGenomics