A comparative study of statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed genes in spatial transcriptomics

• Yishan Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Chenxuan Zang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Ziyi Li,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Charles C. Guo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Dejian Lai,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Peng Wei

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pwei2@mdanderson.org

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7758-6116

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