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

  • Eugenio Marco
    Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115;
  • Robert L. Karp
    Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115;
  • Guoji Guo
    Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115;
  • Paul Robson
    Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore and Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672; and
  • Adam H. Hart
    Department of Genetics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
  • Lorenzo Trippa
    Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115;
  • Guo-Cheng Yuan
    Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115;

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公開日
2014-12-15
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  • http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/userlicense.xhtml
DOI
  • 10.1073/pnas.1408993111
公開者
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>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.</jats:p>

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