Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Modeling biological and genetic diversity in upper tract urothelial carcinoma with patient derived xenografts

  • Kwanghee Kim,
  • Wenhuo Hu,
  • François Audenet,
  • Nima Almassi,
  • Aphrothiti J. Hanrahan,
  • Katie Murray,
  • Aditya Bagrodia,
  • Nathan Wong,
  • Timothy N. Clinton,
  • Shawn Dason,
  • Vishnu Mohan,
  • Sylvia Jebiwott,
  • Karan Nagar,
  • Jianjiong Gao,
  • Alex Penson,
  • Chris Hughes,
  • Benjamin Gordon,
  • Ziyu Chen,
  • Yiyu Dong,
  • Philip A. Watson,
  • Ricardo Alvim,
  • Arijh Elzein,
  • Sizhi P. Gao,
  • Emiliano Cocco,
  • Alessandro D. Santin,
  • Irina Ostrovnaya,
  • James J. Hsieh,
  • Irit Sagi,
  • Eugene J. Pietzak,
  • A. Ari Hakimi,
  • Jonathan E. Rosenberg,
  • Gopa Iyer,
  • Herbert A. Vargas,
  • Maurizio Scaltriti,
  • Hikmat Al-Ahmadie,
  • David B. Solit,
  • Jonathan A. Coleman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15885-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The advancement of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) research is hampered by the lack of disease-specific models. Here, the authors report patient derived xenograft and cell line models of UTUC, and show that these models retain the genomic and biological heterogeneity of human disease.