no code implementations • 18 Jun 2019 • Renaud Dessalles, Yunbei Pan, Mingtao Xia, Davide Maestrini, Maria R. D'Orsogna, Tom Chou
Using a mean-field approximation to the solution of a regulated birth-death-immigration model and a modification arising from sampling, we systematically quantify how TCR-dependent heterogeneities in immigration and proliferation rates affect the shape of clone abundance distributions (the number of different clones that are represented by a specific number of cells, or "clone counts").