Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Single-nuclei and bulk-tissue gene-expression analysis of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma links disease subtypes with tumor microenvironment

  • Magnus Zethoven,
  • Luciano Martelotto,
  • Andrew Pattison,
  • Blake Bowen,
  • Shiva Balachander,
  • Aidan Flynn,
  • Fernando J. Rossello,
  • Annette Hogg,
  • Julie A. Miller,
  • Zdenek Frysak,
  • Sean Grimmond,
  • Lauren Fishbein,
  • Arthur S. Tischler,
  • Anthony J. Gill,
  • Rodney J. Hicks,
  • Patricia L. M. Dahia,
  • Roderick Clifton-Bligh,
  • Karel Pacak,
  • Richard W. Tothill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34011-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PCPG) are rare neuroendocrine tumours. Here, the authors use single-nuclei and bulk-tissue RNA-seq to characterise PCPG tumours and their microenvironments and reveal molecular subtypes as well as expression patterns associated with metastasis.