A spin glass representation of hierarchical gene regulation and the partial resolution of frustration
Gene regulatory networks are directed and often contain loops. A loop can place competing demands on its genes, so that no expression state satisfies every regulatory interaction. In statistical physics such a conflict is called frustration. Existing spin-glass models of tissues assume symmetric regulation, and studies of frustration consider single cells. We develop a nonreciprocal multicellular…
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