FIGURE 3.
Validation of Dermal sheath (DS) population and its loss upon aging in independent scRNA-seq datasets. Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) plots of fibroblast populations from (A) Vorstandlechner et al., 2020, (B) Rojahn et al., 2020, (C) Tabib et al., 2020 and (D) Solé-Boldo et al., 2020. Violin plots of the average expression of the ten most upregulated genes of DS population (COL11A1, DPEP1, POSTN, TAGLN, MEF2C, MYL4, TNMD, WFDC1, GPC3, PPP1R14A) in these datasets. (E) UMAP plot of fibroblasts of other datasets integrated together with our dataset. Percentage of DS population young vs. old, n = 8 (young), n = 9 (old). *p < 0.05 (two-tailed unpaired t-test), mean +/- SEM. FB Fibroblasts, SR secretory-reticular, PI pro-inflammatory, SP secretory-papillary, M mesenchymal.