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ArticleCell2025

Coalescing single-cell genomes and transcriptomes to decode breast cancer progression.

Kaile Wang, Rui Ye, Shanshan Bai, Zhenna Xiao, Lei Yang, Jianzhuo Li, Chenling Tang, Emi Sei, Jinyu Peng, Anna K Casasent and 5 more

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Article in Cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Kaile WangDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; State Key Laboratory of RNA Innovation, Science and Engineering, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China. Electronic address: kailewang@sibcb.ac.cn.
Rui YeDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Radiation Oncology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Shanshan BaiDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Zhenna XiaoDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Lei YangDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Jianzhuo LiDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Chenling TangDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Emi SeiDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Jinyu PengState Key Laboratory of RNA Innovation, Science and Engineering, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
Anna K CasasentDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Steven H LinDepartment of Radiation Oncology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Chandandeep NagiDepartment of Pathology, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Alastair M ThompsonDepartment of Surgery, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Savitri KrishnamurthyDepartment of Anatomical Pathology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Nicholas E NavinDepartment of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Bioinformatics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: nnavin@mdanderson.org.

Funding

DELINEATING THE EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF CHEMORESISTANCE IN BREAST CANCER WITH SINGLE CELL GENOMICSR01CA236864 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI NAVIN, NICHOLAS · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
INVESTIGATING TUMOR INITIATION AND INVASION IN PREMALIGNANT BREAST CANCER WITH SPATIAL SINGLE CELL GENOMICSR01CA240526 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI NAVIN, NICHOLAS · 2019 to 2023
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA236864NCI NIH HHS R01 CA240526
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding epithelial lineages of breast cancer and genotype-phenotype relationships requires direct measurements of the genome and transcriptome of the same single cells at scale. To achieve this, we developed wellDR-seq, a high-genomic-resolution, high-throughput method to simultaneously profile the genome and transcriptome of thousands of single cells. We profiled 33,646 single cells from 12 estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancers and identified ancestral subclones in multiple patients that showed a luminal hormone-responsive lineage, indicating a potential cell of origin. In contrast to bulk studies, wellDR-seq enabled the study of subclone-level gene-dosage relationships, which showed near-linear correlations in large chromosomal segments and extensive variation at the single-gene level. We identified dosage-sensitive and dosage-insensitive genes, including many breast cancer genes as well as sporadic copy-number aberrations in non-cancer cells. Overall, these data reveal complex relationships between copy number and gene expression in single cells, improving our understanding of breast cancer progression.

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Breast NeoplasmsGenome, HumanBase SequenceCell Line, TumorDisease ProgressionDNA Copy Number VariationsGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGenotypeHumansMultigene FamilySingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisTranscriptomeaneuploidybreast cancer genomicsbreast cancer progressionDNA copy numbergene dosage effectssingle-cell DNA and RNA sequencingsingle-cell multiomicssingle-cell sequencingtumor evolutionwellDR-seq

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PMID40912251
PMCPMC12416759

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