Why do some genes are more prone to dropout effect in scRNA-seq?

Why do some genes are more prone to dropout effect in scRNA-seq?

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Dear Community,

scRNA-seq analysis has its own conventions. For example, CD56 is a canonical protein marker for the identification of Natural Killer (NK) cells. However, in scRNA-seq analysis, NCAM1 (gene for CD56) is not commonly used. Instead, GNLY and NKG7 are popular markers for identification of NK cell cluster in t-SNE or UMAP.

To address this issue, I have investigated several scRNA-seq datasets from different technologies such as 10X Chromium (v1, v2, v3) and Smart-seq2. It turns out that NCAM1 expression is very low in even FACS-gated (as CD56+) NK cells while GNLY and NKG7 are detected very well in this group.

My question is that why do some genes are more prone to dropout effect? What are the biological or technical explanations behind this issue?

Thank you for your contributions in advance.


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