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| author | Nguyen, Huyen Bar, Haim Chi, Zhiyi Pozdnyakov, Vladimir |
| author_facet | Nguyen, Huyen Bar, Haim Chi, Zhiyi Pozdnyakov, Vladimir |
| contents | Stem cells, through their ability to produce daughter stem cells and differentiate into specialized cells, are essential in the growth, maintenance, and repair of biological tissues. Understanding the dynamics of cell populations in the proliferation process not only uncovers proliferative properties of stem cells, but also offers insight into tissue development under both normal conditions and pathological disruption. In this paper, we develop a continuous time branching process model with time-dependent offspring distribution to characterize stem cell proliferation process. We derive analytical expressions for mean, variance, and autocovariance of the stem cell counts, and develop likelihood-based inference procedures to estimate model parameters. Particularly, we construct a forward algorithm likelihood to handle situations when some cell types cannot be directly observed. Simulation results demonstrate that our estimation method recovers the time-dependent division probabilities with good accuracy. |
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| spellingShingle | A Time-Varying Branching Process Approach to Model Self-Renewing Cells Nguyen, Huyen Bar, Haim Chi, Zhiyi Pozdnyakov, Vladimir Applications Stem cells, through their ability to produce daughter stem cells and differentiate into specialized cells, are essential in the growth, maintenance, and repair of biological tissues. Understanding the dynamics of cell populations in the proliferation process not only uncovers proliferative properties of stem cells, but also offers insight into tissue development under both normal conditions and pathological disruption. In this paper, we develop a continuous time branching process model with time-dependent offspring distribution to characterize stem cell proliferation process. We derive analytical expressions for mean, variance, and autocovariance of the stem cell counts, and develop likelihood-based inference procedures to estimate model parameters. Particularly, we construct a forward algorithm likelihood to handle situations when some cell types cannot be directly observed. Simulation results demonstrate that our estimation method recovers the time-dependent division probabilities with good accuracy. |
| title | A Time-Varying Branching Process Approach to Model Self-Renewing Cells |
| topic | Applications |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22282 |