Nature Communications (May 2019)

Evaluating cell lines as models for metastatic breast cancer through integrative analysis of genomic data

  • Ke Liu,
  • Patrick A. Newbury,
  • Benjamin S. Glicksberg,
  • William Z. D. Zeng,
  • Shreya Paithankar,
  • Eran R. Andrechek,
  • Bin Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10148-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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While cell lines and organoids are extensively used to study cancer, how closely they resemble the disease in patients remains unclear. Here, Liu et al. shed light on this issue by comparing the genomic and transcriptomic profiles of different breast cancer cell lines and organoids to data from patient-derived breast cancer metastases.