Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals that glioblastoma recapitulates a normal neurodevelopmental hierarchy

  • Charles P. Couturier,
  • Shamini Ayyadhury,
  • Phuong U. Le,
  • Javad Nadaf,
  • Jean Monlong,
  • Gabriele Riva,
  • Redouane Allache,
  • Salma Baig,
  • Xiaohua Yan,
  • Mathieu Bourgey,
  • Changseok Lee,
  • Yu Chang David Wang,
  • V. Wee Yong,
  • Marie-Christine Guiot,
  • Hamed Najafabadi,
  • Bratislav Misic,
  • Jack Antel,
  • Guillaume Bourque,
  • Jiannis Ragoussis,
  • Kevin Petrecca

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17186-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Glioblastoma is thought to arise from neural stem cells. Here, to investigate this, the authors use single-cell RNA-sequencing to compare glioblastoma to the fetal human brain, and find a similarity between glial progenitor cells and a subpopulation of glioblastoma cells.