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Human PNS Atlas

A large-scale single-cell transcriptional and spatial atlas of human peripheral nerves in health and disease (polyneuropathies). Interactive visualizations of the snRNA-seq and Xenium spatial transcriptomics data are available below.

PublicationMulti-omic identification of perineurial hyperplasia and lipid-associated nerve macrophages in human polyneuropathies, Heming et al., Nature Communications, 2025

CodeGitHub | archived on Zenodo

Raw data — GEO GSE285983 | GSE285984

ReproducibilityQuarto document with automatic data download from Zenodo

Datasets

Single nuclei sural nerve atlas
Single nuclei sural nerve atlas (365,708 nuclei) of 33 polyneuropathy patients and 4 controls
Single nuclei sural nerve atlas
Spatial transcriptomics CIAP human sural nerve
Spatial transcriptomics (Xenium) of a sural nerve from a patient suffering from CIAP (chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy) (S14).
Spatial transcriptomics CIAP human sural nerve
Spatial transcriptomics healthy human sural nerve
Spatial transcriptomics (Xenium) of a healthy human sural nerve (S24).
Spatial transcriptomics healthy human sural nerve
Spatial transcriptomics VN human sural nerve.
Spatial transcriptomics (Xenium) of a a sural nerve from a patient suffering from VN (vasculitic neuropathy) (S30).
Spatial transcriptomics VN human sural nerve.
Spatial transcriptomics CIDP human sural nerve
Spatial transcriptomics (Xenium) of a sural nerve from a patient suffering from CIDP (chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy) (S01).
Spatial transcriptomics CIDP human sural nerve

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