Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Construction of developmental lineage relationships in the mouse mammary gland by single-cell RNA profiling

  • Bhupinder Pal,
  • Yunshun Chen,
  • François Vaillant,
  • Paul Jamieson,
  • Lavinia Gordon,
  • Anne C. Rios,
  • Stephen Wilcox,
  • Naiyang Fu,
  • Kevin He Liu,
  • Felicity C. Jackling,
  • Melissa J. Davis,
  • Geoffrey J. Lindeman,
  • Gordon K. Smyth,
  • Jane E. Visvader

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01560-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The mammary epithelium comprises two cell lineages but the heterogeneity amongst these during development is unclear. Here, the authors report single-cell RNA sequencing of the mouse mammary epithelium at four developmental stages, revealing diversity in both compartments and a transcriptional shift with puberty onset.