Nature Communications (May 2018)

Clinical and genomic landscape of gastric cancer with a mesenchymal phenotype

  • Sang Cheul Oh,
  • Bo Hwa Sohn,
  • Jae-Ho Cheong,
  • Sang-Bae Kim,
  • Jae Eun Lee,
  • Ki Cheong Park,
  • Sang Ho Lee,
  • Jong-Lyul Park,
  • Yun-Yong Park,
  • Hyun-Sung Lee,
  • Hee-Jin Jang,
  • Eun Sung Park,
  • Sang-Cheol Kim,
  • Jeonghoon Heo,
  • In-Sun Chu,
  • You-Jin Jang,
  • Young-Jae Mok,
  • WonKyung Jung,
  • Baek-Hui Kim,
  • Aeree Kim,
  • Jae Yong Cho,
  • Jae Yun Lim,
  • Yuki Hayashi,
  • Shumei Song,
  • Elena Elimova,
  • Jeannelyn S. Estralla,
  • Jeffrey H. Lee,
  • Manoop S. Bhutani,
  • Yiling Lu,
  • Wenbin Liu,
  • Jeeyun Lee,
  • Won Ki Kang,
  • Sung Kim,
  • Sung Hoon Noh,
  • Gordon B. Mills,
  • Seon-Young Kim,
  • Jaffer A. Ajani,
  • Ju-Seog Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04179-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The prognosis and treatment of gastric cancer is complicated by heterogeneity. Here, the authors reveal two molecular subtypes, the mesenchymal subtype associated with poor survival and chemoresistance, and the epithelial phenotype associated with better survival and sensitivity to chemotherapy.