Transcriptional Regulation of Lineage Commitment - A Stochastic Model of Cell Fate Decisions

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Teles, Jose ^a   Pina, Cristina ^b,c   Edén, Patrik ^a   Ohlsson, Mattias ^a   Enver, Tariq ^b   Peterson, Carsten ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES; TRANSCRIPTION;

'CURRENT; CELL FATE DECISION; GENES EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; MULTIPOTENT CELLS; SINGLE CELLS; STOCHASTIC-MODELING; STOCHASTICS; TIMES SERIES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84883385125     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003197     Document Type: Article

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