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Title Breast tumor PDXs are genetically plastic and correspond to a subset of aggressive cancers prone to relapse
Creator du Manoir et al.
Author Stanislas du Manoir
Author Béatrice Orsetti
Author Rui Bras-Gonçalves
Author Tien-Tuan Nguyen
Author Laurence Lasorsa
Author Florence Boissière
Author Blandine Massemin
Author Pierre-Emmanuel Colombo
Author Frédéric Bibeau
Author William Jacot
Author Charles Theillet
Abstract Patient derived xenografts (PDXs) are increasingly appreciated models in cancer research, particularly for preclinical testing, as they reflect the patient's tumor biology more accurately than cancer cell lines. We have established a collection of 20 breast PDXs and characterized their biological and clinical features, as well as their genetic stability. While most PDXs originated from triple negative breast cancers (70%), our collection comprised five ER + cases (25%). Remarkably, the tumors that produced PDXs derived from a subset of aggressive breast cancers with a high proportion of grade 3 tumors and reduced recurrence-free survival. Consistent with this, we found significant differences between the transcriptomic signatures of tumors that produced a PDX (Take) and those that did not (No Take). The PDXs faithfully recapitulate the histological features of their primary tumors, and retain an excellent conservation of molecular classification assignment and Copy Number Change (CNC). Furthermore, the CNC profiles of different PDXs established from the same tumor overlap significantly. However, a small fraction of CNCs in the primary tumor that correspond to oligoclonal events were gradually lost during sequential passaging, suggesting that the PDXs' genetic structure eventually stabilizes around a dominant clone present in the tumor of origin. Finally, de novo occurring genetic events covering up to 9% of the genome were found in only a minority of the PDXs, showing that PDXs have limited genetic instability. These data show that breast cancer PDXs represent a subset of aggressive tumors prone to relapse, and that despite of an excellent conservation of original features, they remain genetically dynamic elements.
Publication Molecular Oncology
Volume 8
Issue 2
Pages 431-443
Date Mar 2014
Journal Abbr Mol Oncol
Language eng
DOI 10.1016/j.molonc.2013.11.010
ISSN 1878-0261
Library Catalog PubMed
Extra PMID: 24394560 PMCID: PMC5528550
Tags Adverse prognosis, Animals, Breast Neoplasms, corresponding, Female, first, first-last-corresponding, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Genetic stability, Heterografts, Humans, last, Mice, Mice, Nude, Neoplasm Transplantation, original, Patient derived xenografts, Transcriptome
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