TY - JOUR AU - Kim, Jung Yeon AU - Tavaré, Simon AU - Shibata, Darryl PY - 2006 DA - 2006/02/03 TI - Human hair genealogies and stem cell latency JO - BMC Biology SP - 2 VL - 4 IS - 1 AB - Stem cells divide to reproduce themselves and produce differentiated progeny. A fundamental problem in human biology has been the inability to measure how often stem cells divide. Although it is impossible to observe every division directly, one method for counting divisions is to count replication errors; the greater the number of divisions, the greater the numbers of errors. Stem cells with more divisions should produce progeny with more replication errors. SN - 1741-7007 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-4-2 DO - 10.1186/1741-7007-4-2 ID - Kim2006 ER -