Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Identification of leukemic and pre-leukemic stem cells by clonal tracking from single-cell transcriptomics

  • Lars Velten,
  • Benjamin A. Story,
  • Pablo Hernández-Malmierca,
  • Simon Raffel,
  • Daniel R. Leonce,
  • Jennifer Milbank,
  • Malte Paulsen,
  • Aykut Demir,
  • Chelsea Szu-Tu,
  • Robert Frömel,
  • Christoph Lutz,
  • Daniel Nowak,
  • Johann-Christoph Jann,
  • Caroline Pabst,
  • Tobias Boch,
  • Wolf-Karsten Hofmann,
  • Carsten Müller-Tidow,
  • Andreas Trumpp,
  • Simon Haas,
  • Lars M. Steinmetz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21650-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Leukaemic stem cells drive acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) progression and relapse but they are incompletely characterized. Here, the authors combine single-cell transcriptomics and clonal tracking using nuclear and mitochondrial somatic variants to distinguish healthy, pre-leukaemic and leukaemic stem cells in AML.