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    Cancer Cell. 2006 Dec;10(6):515-27.

    A collection of breast cancer cell lines for the study of functionally distinct cancer subtypes.

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    Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, USA. rmneve@lbl.gov

    Abstract

    Recent studies suggest that thousands of genes may contribute to breast cancer pathophysiologies when deregulated by genomic or epigenomic events. Here, we describe a model "system" to appraise the functional contributions of these genes to breast cancer subsets. In general, the recurrent genomic and transcriptional characteristics of 51 breast cancer cell lines mirror those of 145 primary breast tumors, although some significant differences are documented. The cell lines that comprise the system also exhibit the substantial genomic, transcriptional, and biological heterogeneity found in primary tumors. We show, using Trastuzumab (Herceptin) monotherapy as an example, that the system can be used to identify molecular features that predict or indicate response to targeted therapies or other physiological perturbations.

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    PMID:
    17157791
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID:
    PMC2730521
    Free PMC Article

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