Nature Communications (Oct 2018)
Myelo-lymphoid lineage restriction occurs in the human haematopoietic stem cell compartment before lymphoid-primed multipotent progenitors
Abstract
Human blood cells all develop from haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), classically thought to be multipotent. Here the authors show, using single-cell RNA-seq and functional assays, that loss of erythroid potential and commitment to the myelo-lymphoid lineage occurs within the purest HSC compartment to date.