ArticleNature communications2018
High-resolution clonal mapping of multi-organ metastasis in triple negative breast cancer.
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96 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 141 citations in OpenAlex.
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- 3D EM uncovers mitochondrial network remodeling in residual triple negative breast cancer after conventional chemotherapy treatments.iScience · 2026Article
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- Regulation of mitochondrial ROS by C15ORF48 in a basal cell subpopulation contributes to chemotherapy resistance in TNBC.Science advances · 2026Article
- Estrogen receptor-positive cell line xenograft models recapitulate metastatic dissemination and endocrine response of invasive lobular breast carcinoma.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- TRPC3-mediated NFATc1 calcium signaling promotes triple negative breast cancer migration through regulating glypican-6 and focal adhesion.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2025Article
- Patient-Derived Xenografts of Breast Cancer.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Most triple negative breast cancers (TNBCs) are aggressively metastatic with a high degree of intra-tumoral heterogeneity (ITH), but how ITH contributes to metastasis is unclear. Here, clonal dynamics during metastasis were studied in vivo using two patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models established from the treatment-naive primary breast tumors of TNBC patients diagnosed with synchronous metastasis. Genomic sequencing and high-complexity barcode-mediated clonal tracking reveal robust alterations in clonal architecture between primary tumors and corresponding metastases. Polyclonal seeding and maintenance of heterogeneous populations of low-abundance subclones is observed in each metastasis. However, lung, liver, and brain metastases are enriched for an identical population of high-abundance subclones, demonstrating that primary tumor clones harbor properties enabling them to seed and thrive in multiple organ sites. Further, clones that dominate multi-organ metastases share a genomic lineage. Thus, intrinsic properties of rare primary tumor subclones enable the seeding and colonization of metastases in secondary organs in these models.
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