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ArticleiScience2020

Alignment of Cell Lineage Trees Elucidates Genetic Programs for the Development and Evolution of Cell Types.

Meng Yuan, Xujiang Yang, Jinghua Lin, Xiaolong Cao, Feng Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zizhang Li, Guifeng Zheng, Xueqin Wang, Xiaoshu Chen and 1 more

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Article in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Meng YuanDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Xujiang YangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Jinghua LinSchool of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
Xiaolong CaoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Feng ChenDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Xiaoyu ZhangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Zizhang LiDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Guifeng ZhengSchool of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
Xueqin WangDepartment of Statistics and Finance, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Xiaoshu ChenDepartment of Medical Genetics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. Electronic address: chenxshu3@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
Jian-Rong YangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; RNA Biomedical Institute, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. Electronic address: yangjianrong@mail.sysu.edu.cn.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A full understanding of the developmental process requires fine-scale characterization of cell divisions and cell types, which are naturally organized as the developmental cell lineage tree (CLT). Technological breakthroughs facilitated determination of more CLTs, but complete comprehension of the data remains difficult without quantitative comparison among CLTs. We hereby quantified phenotypic similarity between CLTs using a novel computational method that exhaustively searches for optimal correspondence between individual cells meanwhile retaining their topological relationships. The revealed CLT similarities allowed us to infer functional similarity at the transcriptome level, identify cell fate transformations, predict functional relationships between mutants, and find evolutionary correspondence between cell types of different species. By allowing quantitative comparison between CLTs, our work is expected to greatly enhance the interpretability of relevant data and help answer the myriad of questions surrounding the developmental process.

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