Probing Steady-state and Post-transplant Blood System Dynamics with Computational Analysis and Lineage-tracing

Abstract

Bone marrow transplants are an important tool in modern medicine due to their ability to treat a wide range of diseases, spanning both cancerous and non-cancerous conditions. We aim to study the blood system dynamics using sequencing data from paired pre-transplant and post-transplant samples and look for potential expression profiles that may be biased toward successful bone marrow engraftment. We find that some genes have increased expression in post-transplant samples compared to pre-transplant samples. We also discuss using clonal lineage tracing to track cell clones throughout the transplant process and present some preliminary analyses.