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Genomic variability within an organism exposes its cell lineage tree.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Oct 2005
Frumkin Dan, Wasserstrom Adam, Kaplan Shai, Feige Uriel, Shapiro Ehud
Abstract excerpt
What is the lineage relation among the cells of an organism? The answer is sought by developmental biology, immunology, stem cell research, brain research, and cancer research, yet complete cell lineage trees have been reconstructed only for simple organisms such as Caenorhabditis elegans. We discovered that somatic mutations accumulated during normal development of a higher organism implicitly encode its entire...
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