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Published in final edited form as: BJOG. 2021 Nov 18;129(2):208–220. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.16970

Table 1. Known human placental scRNA-seq datasets.

Summary of 424,238 scRNA-seq transcriptomes related to placental biology.

First Author Year Samples Cells Data Repository Platform
Pavličev 2017 term, cesarean-section placentas from two patients 87 GEO: GSE87726 Fluidigm C1 and laser microdissection
Tsang 2017 term placentas (two female and two male babies) 20,518 EBI: EGAS00001002449 10X Genomics 3' (v1)
Suryawanshi 2018 First trimester (6–11 weeks) >14,300 placental villi from eight patients and 6.7k decidual cells from five patients 14,341 (placental villi), 6,754 (decidua) BioProject ID: PRJNA492324 10X Genomics and Drop-seq
Liu 2018 first- and second-trimester (8- and 24-week) placental samples 1,471 GEO: GSE89497 SMART-seq2
Vento-Tormo 2018 first-trimester (6–11 weeks) placenta (5 patients, 18,547 cells), decidua (11 patients, 40,512), and matched-PBMCs (6 patients, 10,001 cells) 70,325 ArrayExpress: E-MTAB-6701 (10x Genomics) and E-MTAB-6678 (SMART-seq2) SMART-seq2 or 10X Genomics 3' (v2)
Pique-Regi 2019 term chorioamniotic membranes, placental villi, and basal plate samples (with or without labor at 38–40 weeks) were compared with samples from pre-term labor (33–34 weeks) patients. 79,906 NIH dbGAP: phs001886.v1.p1 10X Genomics 3' (v2)
Pique-Regi 2020 snRNA-seq from 32 placental villi and decidual samples collected from in the second or third-trimester 26,501 NIH dbGAP: phs001886.v2.p1 10X Genomics 3' (v2 3rd trim. or v3 2nd trim.)
Sun 2020 first-trimester (6–11 weeks) placental villi were analyzed from 6 patients (3 male and 3 female offspring) 7,245 GEO: GSE131696 10X Genomics 3' (v2)
Han 2020 chorionic villus cells from a 13-week male and additional placenta cells from a 10 week female 19,493 GEO: GSE134355 **700k cells- select (a) placenta and (b) chorionic villus samples. Microwell-seq
Cao 2020 5 males and 6 females estimated at 12–17-weeks 29,876 GEO: GSE156793 **4.9M cells- select 11 placenta samples Sci-RNA-seq3
Saha 2020 first-trimester placentas (6 and 7.6 weeks) 14,603 (independent analysis) GEO: GSE145036 10X Genomics 3' (v, unk.)
Guo 2021 24 human 1st- trimester decidual samples (9 RPL and 15 healthy) that were presorted for CD45+ cells 10,142 (controls) and 8,504 (RPL) GSA: CRA002181 10X Genomics 3' (v2)
Yang 2021 Full-term placentas collected during caesarean section (2 healthy and 2 GDM) were subject to scRNA-seq 14,591 (GDM) and 12,629 (control) GEO: GSE173193 10X Genomics 3' (v3)
Shannon 2021 healthy placental villi from 7 patients during the first-trimester and additional trophoblast organoid cultures 12,794 (placenta) and 37,996 (organoid) ArrayExpress: E-MTAB-6701 10X Genomics (v, unk)