Modeling clonal expansion from M-FISH experiments

作者:Stolte Thomas; Hoesel Volker; Mueller Johannes; Speicher Michael
来源:Journal of Computational Biology, 2008, 15(2): 221-230.
DOI:10.1089/cmb.2007.0076

摘要

A population genetic model is used to describe dynamical aspects of chromosomal abberations observed in M-FISH experiments. Linear differential equations model the evolution of relative frequencies of mutations. The unknown parameters involved are estimated by maximum likelihood methods. We propose a scoring system to select the most important mutations. In order to reduce the number of parameters and computation time, only the highest ranked mutations are considered. First applications to M-FISH data show rather promising results.

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