A stochastic model of epigenetic dynamics in somatic cell reprogramming

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 JUN, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Flöttmann, Max ^a   Scharp, Till ^a   Klipp, Edda ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiation and reprogramming; Epigenetic landscape; Induced pluripotent stem cells; Mathematical modeling; Probabilistic Boolean network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866386347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00216     Document Type: Article

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