Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Leukaemia cell of origin identified by chromatin landscape of bulk tumour cells

  • Joshy George,
  • Asli Uyar,
  • Kira Young,
  • Lauren Kuffler,
  • Kaiden Waldron-Francis,
  • Eladio Marquez,
  • Duygu Ucar,
  • Jennifer J. Trowbridge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12166
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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A tumour’s cell of origin may influence tumour progression and response to therapy. Here, the authors demonstrate that the cell of origin determines the aggressiveness of AML in a mouse model and identify unique biomarkers of the specific leukaemia cell of origin by profiling open chromatin regions of AML samples.