Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Spatiotemporal dynamics of clonal selection and diversification in normal endometrial epithelium

  • Manako Yamaguchi,
  • Hirofumi Nakaoka,
  • Kazuaki Suda,
  • Kosuke Yoshihara,
  • Tatsuya Ishiguro,
  • Nozomi Yachida,
  • Kyota Saito,
  • Haruka Ueda,
  • Kentaro Sugino,
  • Yutaro Mori,
  • Kaoru Yamawaki,
  • Ryo Tamura,
  • Sundaramoorthy Revathidevi,
  • Teiichi Motoyama,
  • Kazuki Tainaka,
  • Roel G. W. Verhaak,
  • Ituro Inoue,
  • Takayuki Enomoto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28568-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Through regeneration, the endometrium accumulates somatic mutations that can lead to diseases like endometriosis and cancer. Here, the authors use genomics to analyse normal endometrial glands from different patient cohorts, detect rhizome structures with common clonal ancestors and infer clonal expansion dynamics.