Reduced melanocortin tone modulates feeding during pregnancy in mice.
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- [1] § Methods › Xenium spatial transcriptomics analysis ↔ R/config.R, lines 95–153 · score 0.87 · histological damage, SCTransform, DESeq2, arcuate nucleus, glial, shrink
- [2] § Methods › Xenium spatial transcriptomics analysis ↔ pipeline/03_cell_type_assignment.R, lines 217–273 · score 0.83 · Allen Brain, Cell Atlas, Unsupervised clustering, refinement, endothelial, agreement
- [3] § Methods › Xenium spatial transcriptomics analysis ↔ pipeline/04_neuron_subclustering.R, lines 58–120 · score 0.82 · Silhouette scores, murine arcuate, clustering resolutions, embeddings, canonical, neuroendocrine
- [4] § Methods › Xenium spatial transcriptomics analysis ↔ R/singlecell.R, lines 44–58 · score 0.82 · FindClusters, FindNeighbors, RunPCA, standard Seurat, graph, pipeline
- [5] § Methods › Xenium spatial transcriptomics analysis ↔ pipeline/05_pseudobulk_deseq2.R, lines 1–75 · score 0.79 · dispersion trend, DESeq2 Modeling, ad libitum, moderate, glial, shrink
- [6] § Methods › Xenium spatial transcriptomics analysis ↔ pipeline/05_pseudobulk_deseq2.R, lines 1–75 · score 0.78 · ComplexHeatmap, split models, DESeq2 model, ad libitum, apeglm, heatmaps
- [7] § Methods › Xenium spatial transcriptomics analysis ↔ pipeline/03_cell_type_assignment.R, lines 27–62 · score 0.73 · log normalized, singleR, single cell, class, assignment, Hypomap
- [8] § Results › Pregnancy alters the transcriptome of AgRP and POMC neurons towards the promotion of positive energy balance ↔ pipeline/04_neuron_subclustering.R, lines 58–120 · score 0.72 · tuberoinfundibular dopamine, dynorphic, kisspeptin, neurokinin, somatostatin, GHRH
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- [10] § Methods › Xenium spatial transcriptomics analysis ↔ pipeline/01_build_seurat_object.R, lines 1–16 · score 0.65 · median eminence, expert annotation, segmentation, Seurat, pipeline, Xenium
- [11] § Results › Pregnancy alters the transcriptome of AgRP and POMC neurons towards the promotion of positive energy balance ↔ R/pseudobulk.R, lines 121–143 · score 0.54 · apeglm shrinkage, fold changes, DESEQ2, transcripts, Gene
- [12] § Results › Pregnancy alters the transcriptome of AgRP and POMC neurons towards the promotion of positive energy balance ↔ R/config.R, lines 95–153 · score 0.51 · arcuate nucleus, GHRH, SST, TIDA, KNDy, CRABP1
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- # =============================================================================
- # config.R -- all paths and analysis parameters in one place.
- #
- # This is the ONLY file that should need editing to re-run the pipeline on a
- # different machine. Nothing below hard-codes a path.
- # =============================================================================
- # --- Root directories --------------------------------------------------------
- # Override any of these with an environment variable of the same name if you
- # prefer not to edit the file (e.g. Sys.setenv(MBH_DATA = "/data/MBH")).
- PROJECT_ROOT <- Sys.getenv("MBH_PROJECT", unset = getwd())
- DATA_ROOT <- Sys.getenv("MBH_DATA", unset = file.path(PROJECT_ROOT, "data"))
- RESULTS_ROOT <- Sys.getenv("MBH_RESULTS", unset = file.path(PROJECT_ROOT, "results"))
- # --- Raw Xenium input --------------------------------------------------------
- # One entry per Xenium run. `slide` is the batch covariate used by DESeq2;
- # `prefix` is prepended to cell barcodes to keep them unique after merging.
- XENIUM_RUNS <- list(
- list(id = "anterior.1", prefix = "a1", slide = "slide.1",
- dir = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "anterior01_0043730"),
- roi = "anterior_01_coordinates.csv"),
- list(id = "anterior.2", prefix = "a2", slide = "slide.2",
- dir = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "anterior02_0043730"),
- roi = "anterior_02_coordinates.csv"),
- list(id = "anterior.3", prefix = "a3", slide = "slide.3",
- dir = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "anterior03_0043730"),
- roi = "anterior_03_coordinates.csv"),
- list(id = "posterior.1", prefix = "p1", slide = "slide.1",
- dir = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "posterior01_0050193"),
- roi = "posterior_01_coordinates.csv"),
- list(id = "posterior.2", prefix = "p2", slide = "slide.2",
- dir = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "posterior02_0050193"),
- roi = "posterior_02_coordinates.csv"),
- list(id = "posterior.3", prefix = "p3", slide = "slide.3",
- dir = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "posterior03_0050193"),
- roi = "posterior_03_coordinates.csv")
- )
- SEGMENTATION_METHOD <- "cell" # passed to LoadXenium(segmentations = )
- PATHS <- list(
- roi_coordinates = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "coordinates"),
- xenium_clusters = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "cluster_stats"),
- gene_panel = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "reference", "XeniumPrimeMouse5Kpan_tissue_pathways_metadata.csv"),
- hypomap = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "reference", "hypomap.RDS"),
- # Serialised Seurat objects, one per pipeline stage.
- obj_raw = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "objects", "01_arcuate_raw.RDS"),
- obj_normalized = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "objects", "02_arcuate_sct.RDS"),
- obj_labelled = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "objects", "03_arcuate_labelled.RDS"),
- obj_neurons = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "objects", "04_arcuate_neurons.RDS"),
- singleR_results = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "objects", "03_singleR_results.RDS"),
- singleR_training = file.path(DATA_ROOT, "objects", "03_singleR_training.RDS"),
- # Figure / table output, one directory per pipeline stage.
- out_qc = file.path(RESULTS_ROOT, "02_qc_normalization"),
- out_labels = file.path(RESULTS_ROOT, "03_cell_assignment"),
- out_neurons = file.path(RESULTS_ROOT, "04_neuron_analysis"),
- out_deseq2 = file.path(RESULTS_ROOT, "05_deseq2")
- )
- # --- Metadata schema ---------------------------------------------------------
- # ROI labels exported from Xenium Explorer encode condition, animal, and
- # anterior/posterior position, e.g. "NP_AL_02_POS_A".
- # <pregnancy>_<feeding>_<animal>_<ANT|POS>_<A|B hemisphere>
- META <- list(
- condition_col = "condition",
- sample_col = "tissue.number", # one animal = one biological replicate
- batch_col = "tissue.apaxis", # anterior vs posterior section
- slide_col = "slide.id", # physical slide, alternative batch term
- # Regex -> condition label. PregnantFM (pair-fed) is loaded but dropped in 02.
- condition_map = c(
- "^NP_AL_" = "AdLib",
- "^NP_F_" = "Fasted",
- "^P_AL_" = "Pregnant",
- "^P_FM_" = "PregnantFM"
- ),
- # Offset added to the animal number so IDs stay unique across conditions.
- animal_offset = c(AdLib = 0, Fasted = 5, Pregnant = 10, PregnantFM = 15),
- conditions_kept = c("AdLib", "Fasted", "Pregnant"),
- control_group = "AdLib"
- )
- # --- QC thresholds (pipeline 02) --------------------------------------------
- QC <- list(
- min_counts_per_cell = 50, # hard floor on transcripts per cell
- min_area_per_cell = 15, # hard floor on segmented area, um^2
- knee_divisor = 3 # keep cells above (count-per-area knee / this)
- )
- # --- Clustering (pipelines 02-04) -------------------------------------------
- CLUSTERING <- list(
- pca_dims = 1:30,
- whole_tissue_resolution = 0.4,
- neuron_resolution = 0.25,
- neuron_resolution_sweep = c(0.1, 0.25, 0.4, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5),
- # SCTransform for the neuron subset regresses condition so that clusters
- # reflect cell identity rather than treatment (see Methods).
- neuron_vars_to_regress = "condition"
- )
- # Clusters removed as non-arcuate before the final round of labelling, and
- # clusters given a manual label because HypoMap does not represent them.
- # NOTE: these indices refer to the resolution set above and are stable only for
- # a fixed random seed -- see 03_cell_type_assignment.R.
- MANUAL_LABELS <- list(
- drop = c("VMH contaminants", "Pituitary Stalk", "Retrochiasmatic Area or Oxtocin Axons"),
- pass1 = c("2" = "VMH contaminants", "15" = "Microglia",
- "16" = "Pituitary Stalk", "19" = "Retrochiasmatic Area or Oxtocin Axons"),
- pass2 = c("6" = "Endothelial", "11" = "VLMCs", "14" = "VLMCs", "15" = "Microglia",
- "17" = "Pericyte")
- )
- NEURON_CLUSTER_NAMES <- c(
- "0" = "Mixed.GABAergic.Neurons",
- "1" = "AgRP",
- "2" = "Pomc",
- "3" = "Sst",
- "4" = "Ghrh",
- "5" = "Crabp1",
- "6" = "KNDy",
- "7" = "TIDA"
- )
- # --- DESeq2 (pipeline 05) ----------------------------------------------------
- # Sections excluded for histological damage or for being too anterior to
- # contain arcuate nucleus (see Methods, "Samples were excluded if...").
- OUTLIER_ROI <- list(
- # AdLib animal 2 posterior; Fasted animal 5 both sections
- Fasted = c("NP_AL_02_POS_A", "NP_AL_02_POS_B",
- "NP_F_05_POS_A", "NP_F_05_POS_B",
- "NP_F_05_ANT_A", "NP_F_05_ANT_B"),
- # AdLib animal 2 posterior; Pregnant animal 4 anterior
- Pregnant = c("NP_AL_02_POS_A", "NP_AL_02_POS_B",
- "P_AL_04_ANT_A", "P_AL_04_ANT_B")
- )
- DESEQ2 <- list(
- min_cells_per_pseudobulk = 15, # neurons
- min_cells_per_glial = 10, # glia are rarer per section
- alpha = 0.1,
- padj_cutoff = 0.05,
- shrink_type = "apeglm",
- # Gene filters. All zero for the published results: DESeq2's own independent
- # filtering is relied on instead. Kept explicit so reviewers can see this.
- min_count_per_gene = 0,
- min_samples_per_gene = 0,
- mean_count_threshold = 0
- )
- # The three models described in the Methods. Each is fit separately per cell
- # type; `contrast` is passed to results() and `coef` to lfcShrink().
- DESEQ2_MODELS <- list(
- fasted = list(
- label = "Fasted_vs_AdLib",
- conditions = c("AdLib", "Fasted"),
- design = ~ tissue.apaxis + condition,
- contrast = c("condition", "Fasted", "AdLib"),
- coef = "condition_Fasted_vs_AdLib",
- outliers = OUTLIER_ROI$Fasted,
- colour = "forestgreen"
- ),
- pregnant = list(
- label = "Pregnant_vs_AdLib",
- conditions = c("AdLib", "Pregnant"),
- design = ~ tissue.apaxis + condition,
- contrast = c("condition", "Pregnant", "AdLib"),
- coef = "condition_Pregnant_vs_AdLib",
- outliers = OUTLIER_ROI$Pregnant,
- colour = "dodgerblue"
- ),
- # Joint model: used for rlog-based QC (correlation heatmaps, PCA, gene
- # loadings) rather than for reported DGE, because the shared dispersion trend
- # shrinks the smaller fasting effect. See Methods, "DESeq2 Modeling".
- joint = list(
- label = "Joint_AllConditions",
- conditions = c("AdLib", "Fasted", "Pregnant"),
- design = ~ tissue.apaxis + condition,
- contrast = NULL,
- coef = NULL,
- outliers = unique(unlist(OUTLIER_ROI)),
- colour = "grey40"
- )
- )
- CONTROL_COLOUR <- "tomato"
- CONDITION_COLOURS <- c(AdLib = CONTROL_COLOUR,
- Fasted = DESEQ2_MODELS$fasted$colour,
- Pregnant = DESEQ2_MODELS$pregnant$colour)
- # --- Session -----------------------------------------------------------------
- RANDOM_SEED <- 42
- options(future.globals.maxSize = 40 * 1024^3) # 40 GB; SCTransform is greedy
- options(expressions = 5e5)
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,Urbana, IL USA
- Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,Urbana, IL USA
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Possa-Paranhos, I. C., Catalbas, K., Congdon, S., Cho, D., Pattnaik, T., Nelson, C., Pathak, A., Patel, V., & Sweeney, P. (2026). Reduced melanocortin tone modulates feeding during pregnancy in mice. Nature communications, 17(1), 8751. https://
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@article{possaparanhos20
author = {Possa-Paranhos, Ingrid Camila and Catalbas, Kerem and Congdon, Samuel and Cho, Dajin and Pattnaik, Tanya and Nelson, Christina and Pathak, Aarav and Patel, Vraj and Sweeney, Patrick},
title = {{Reduced melanocortin tone modulates feeding during pregnancy in mice}},
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year = {2026},
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volume = {17},
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