Nature Communications (May 2021)

Co-evolution of tumor and immune cells during progression of multiple myeloma

  • Ruiyang Liu,
  • Qingsong Gao,
  • Steven M. Foltz,
  • Jared S. Fowles,
  • Lijun Yao,
  • Julia Tianjiao Wang,
  • Song Cao,
  • Hua Sun,
  • Michael C. Wendl,
  • Sunantha Sethuraman,
  • Amila Weerasinghe,
  • Michael P. Rettig,
  • Erik P. Storrs,
  • Christopher J. Yoon,
  • Matthew A. Wyczalkowski,
  • Joshua F. McMichael,
  • Daniel R. Kohnen,
  • Justin King,
  • Scott R. Goldsmith,
  • Julie O’Neal,
  • Robert S. Fulton,
  • Catrina C. Fronick,
  • Timothy J. Ley,
  • Reyka G. Jayasinghe,
  • Mark A. Fiala,
  • Stephen T. Oh,
  • John F. DiPersio,
  • Ravi Vij,
  • Li Ding

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22804-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Clonal evolution in multiple myeloma (MM) needs to be understood in both the tumor and its microenvironment. Here the authors perform single-cell multi-omics profiling of samples from MM patients at different stages, finding transitions in the immune cell composition throughout progression.