Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Molecular dissection of colorectal cancer in pre-clinical models identifies biomarkers predicting sensitivity to EGFR inhibitors

  • Moritz Schütte,
  • Thomas Risch,
  • Nilofar Abdavi-Azar,
  • Karsten Boehnke,
  • Dirk Schumacher,
  • Marlen Keil,
  • Reha Yildiriman,
  • Christine Jandrasits,
  • Tatiana Borodina,
  • Vyacheslav Amstislavskiy,
  • Catherine L. Worth,
  • Caroline Schweiger,
  • Sandra Liebs,
  • Martin Lange,
  • Hans- Jörg Warnatz,
  • Lee M. Butcher,
  • James E. Barrett,
  • Marc Sultan,
  • Christoph Wierling,
  • Nicole Golob-Schwarzl,
  • Sigurd Lax,
  • Stefan Uranitsch,
  • Michael Becker,
  • Yvonne Welte,
  • Joseph Lewis Regan,
  • Maxine Silvestrov,
  • Inge Kehler,
  • Alberto Fusi,
  • Thomas Kessler,
  • Ralf Herwig,
  • Ulf Landegren,
  • Dirk Wienke,
  • Mats Nilsson,
  • Juan A. Velasco,
  • Pilar Garin-Chesa,
  • Christoph Reinhard,
  • Stephan Beck,
  • Reinhold Schäfer,
  • Christian R. A. Regenbrecht,
  • David Henderson,
  • Bodo Lange,
  • Johannes Haybaeck,
  • Ulrich Keilholz,
  • Jens Hoffmann,
  • Hans Lehrach,
  • Marie-Laure Yaspo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14262
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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The heterogeneity of colorectal cancer has important clinical and therapeutic implications. Here the authors analysed the responses of a large biobank of organoids and xenografts derived from colorectal patients to a panel of clinically relevant therapeutic agents to identify genes signatures associated with drug response.