Dissecting the mammary gland one cell at a time.

Cristea, Simona; Polyak, Kornelia · Nat Commun · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Dissecting cellular differentiation hierarchies in the mammary gland is a prerequisite for understanding both normal development and malignant transformation during tumorigenesis and tumor cell-of-origin. To achieve these goals, several recent papers utilized single cell RNA-seq and lineage tracing to improve our understanding of the composition of the mammary epithelium at different developmental stages.

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