scRNA Cell Clustering Defined by Normalized Counts
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Hello! I ran SCTransform from Seurat on only cancer cells from a few patients (individually) and some cells are showing very low gene expression for all genes. When running FindAllMarkers the clusters with these cells are vastly defined by negative markers: Top 10 Genes returned for cluster in question (light blue bottom right): enter image description here

I also noted the pattern of expression matches with nCount_SCT (3rd row, 3rd from left) and this is true of my other samples.

After extracting a column from the counts matrix of of SCT and RNA for a single cell from each end of the UMAP, I saw SCTransform resulted in counts dropping for that cell (Row 2-3, histogram of expression across all genes for one cell pre and post transformation, row 4-5 show expression for each gene pre and post transformation):

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Is there anything I can do about this? Why is this happening?

Thank you for your help!

My Session:

R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3 
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time zone: Etc/UTC
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