Nature Communications (May 2018)

Profiling human breast epithelial cells using single cell RNA sequencing identifies cell diversity

  • Quy H. Nguyen,
  • Nicholas Pervolarakis,
  • Kerrigan Blake,
  • Dennis Ma,
  • Ryan Tevia Davis,
  • Nathan James,
  • Anh T. Phung,
  • Elizabeth Willey,
  • Raj Kumar,
  • Eric Jabart,
  • Ian Driver,
  • Jason Rock,
  • Andrei Goga,
  • Seema A. Khan,
  • Devon A. Lawson,
  • Zena Werb,
  • Kai Kessenbrock

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04334-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Epithelial subpopulations are present in the human breast but how these differentiate or form is unclear. Here, the authors use single-cell RNA sequencing of primary human breast epithelial cells to define previously undescribed luminal, basal epithelial subpopulations and ZEB1-positive basal cells.