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Bifurcation analysis of single-cell gene expression data reveals epigenetic landscape

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Marco, Eugenio, Karp, Robert L., Guo, Guoji, Robson, Paul, Hart, Adam H., Trippa, Lorenzo, Yuan, Guo-Cheng·2014·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Significance: Characterization of cellular heterogeneity and hierarchy are important tasks in developmental biology and may help overcome drug resistance in treatment of cancer and other diseases. Single-cell technologies provide a powerful tool for detecting rare cell types and cell-fate transition events, whereas traditional gene expression profiling methods can be used only to measure the average behavior of a cell population. However, the lack of suitable computational methods for single-cell data analysis has become a bottleneck. Here we present a method with the focuses on automatically detecting multilineage transitions and on modeling the associated changes in gene expression patterns. We show that our method is generally applicable and that its applications provide biological insights into developmental processes.

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Authors
Marco, E., Karp, R. L., Guo, G., Robson, P., Hart, A. H., Trippa, L., & Yuan, G.-C.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Boston Children's Hospital (US)
  • National University of Singapore (SG)
  • La Trobe University (AU)
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2014-12-15
Volume
111
Issue
52
Pages
E5643-50
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2001246746
Cited by
268
References
61
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12.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
HHS | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) (R21HG006778)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
Keywords
bifurcation analysis, single-cell gene expression, SCUBA, cell lineage reconstruction, cell differentiation, epigenetic landscape, mouse embryo development, Nanog, hematopoietic development, B cell development, stochastic differential equations, nonlinear dynamics, lineage bias, transcription factors
MeSH terms
Nanog Homeobox Protein, Animals, B-Lymphocytes, Cell Differentiation, Embryo, Mammalian, Hematopoiesis, Humans, Models, Biological, Stochastic Processes, Homeodomain Proteins, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Epigenesis, Genetic, Mice

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