Building a lineage from single cells: Genetic techniques for cell lineage tracking

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 230-244

  Woodworth, Mollie B ^a,b,c   Girskis, Kelly M ^a,b,c   Walsh, Christopher A ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

CELL LABELING; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRACKING; EVOLUTION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85010220036     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.159     Document Type: Review

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