Integrating whole-exome sequencing and scRNA-seq reveal the characteristic in one clear cell renal cell carcinoma sample arising in the setting of VHL disease

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) arising in the setting of von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) disease is a rare type of kidney cancer and features VHL germline mutation. This type of ccRCC has not been characterised at the single-cell level. In this work, whole-exome sequencing and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) were conducted on one ccRCC sample with VHL disease. Integrating scRNA-seq and whole-exome sequencing data by the Seurat package, we determined the relationship between single-cell transcriptome features and gene mutations. Immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence were performed on one VHL germline mutation ccRCC and six non-VHL germline mutation ccRCC samples.