Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Genomic alterations and evolution of cell clusters in metastatic invasive micropapillary carcinoma of the breast

  • Qianqian Shi,
  • Kang Shao,
  • Hongqin Jia,
  • Boyang Cao,
  • Weidong Li,
  • Shichen Dong,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Kailiang Wu,
  • Meng Liu,
  • Fangfang Liu,
  • Hanlin Zhou,
  • Jianke Lv,
  • Feng Gu,
  • Luyuan Li,
  • Shida Zhu,
  • Shuai Li,
  • Guibo Li,
  • Li Fu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27794-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Invasive micropapillary carcinoma (IMPC) is a highly metastatic rare form of breast cancer but its genomic alterations are largely unknown. Here, the authors show that monoclonal metastatic ancestors share copy-number loss of PRDM16 and IGSF9 and gain of ALDH2 in primary samples from IMPC patients.