Reporting and representation of population descriptors in public RNA-seq databases

Irene Gallego Romero

doi:10.1016/j.xgen.2026.101326

Reporting and representation of population descriptors in public RNA-seq databases

2026-08-13

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Irene Gallego Romero *

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Grace Rodenberg

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Audrey M. Arner

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Lani Li

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Isobel J. Beasley

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Ryan Rossow

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Nicholas Ryan

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Selina Wang

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Amanda J. Lea *

DOI：10.1016/j.xgen.2026.101326

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• Few RNA-seq studies in public databases report population descriptors in metadata • European-ancestry- and White-labeled participants dominate public RNA-seq data • Author-provided labels often misalign with genotype-inferred ancestry groups • Despite increasing sample sizes, representation and metadata quality remain limited

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RNA-seq

public database

metadata

representation

Reporting and representation of population descriptors in public RNA-seq databases

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