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Methods for analysing lineage tracing datasets

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Kostiou, Vasiliki 
Zhang, Huairen 
Hall, Michael W. J.  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2904-6902
Jones, Philip H. 

Abstract

A single population of progenitor cells maintains many epithelial tissues. Transgenic mouse cell tracking has frequently been used to study the growth dynamics of competing clones in these tissues. A mathematical model (the ‘single-progenitor model’) has been argued to reproduce the observed progenitor dynamics accurately. This requires three parameters to describe the growth dynamics observed in transgenic mouse cell tracking—a division rate, a stratification rate and the probability of dividing symmetrically. Deriving these parameters is a time intensive and complex process. We compare the alternative strategies for analysing this source of experimental data, identifying an approximate Bayesian computation-based approach as the best in terms of efficiency and appropriate error estimation. We support our findings by explicitly modelling biological variation and consider the impact of different sampling regimes. All tested solutions are made available to allow new datasets to be analysed following our workflows. Based on our findings, we make recommendations for future experimental design.

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Funder: Wellcome Trust; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440


Funder: Clare College


Funder: MRC Cancer unit


Funder: Medical Research Council (MRC)

Keywords

Biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, Research articles, precancer, ageing, squamous epithelia, tissue homeostasis, statistical approaches

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Royal Society Open Science

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Journal ISSN

2054-5703

Volume Title

8

Publisher

The Royal Society
Sponsorship
Cancer Research UK (C609/A17257)
Sanger Institute (098051, 206194)
Royal Society (UF130039)