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ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2021

Transcriptomic Analysis of Laser Capture Microdissected Tumors Reveals Cancer- and Stromal-Specific Molecular Subtypes of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.

David J Birnbaum, Sebastian K S Begg, Pascal Finetti, Charles Vanderburg, Anupriya S Kulkarni, Azfar Neyaz, Thomas Hank, Eric Tai, Vikram Deshpande, François Bertucci and 7 more

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Article in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

David J Birnbaum *Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sebastian K S Begg *Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-7733-2199
Pascal Finetti *Department of Predictive Oncology, Cancer Research Center of Marseille, U1068 Inserm, UMR 7258 CNRS, Institut Paoli Calmettes, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-2674-3123
Charles VanderburgHarvard NeuroDiscovery Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0001-8979-5054
Anupriya S KulkarniMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Azfar NeyazMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Thomas HankDepartment of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Eric TaiMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Vikram DeshpandeDepartment of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
François BertucciDepartment of Predictive Oncology, Cancer Research Center of Marseille, U1068 Inserm, UMR 7258 CNRS, Institut Paoli Calmettes, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
Daniel BirnbaumDepartment of Predictive Oncology, Cancer Research Center of Marseille, U1068 Inserm, UMR 7258 CNRS, Institut Paoli Calmettes, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
Keith D LillemoeDepartment of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Andrew L WarshawDepartment of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0001-7788-3110
Mari Mino-KenudsonDepartment of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-9092-2265
Carlos Fernandez-Del CastilloDepartment of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
David T TingMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. aliss@mgh.harvard.edu dting1@mgh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3261-2322
Andrew S LissDepartment of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. aliss@mgh.harvard.edu dting1@mgh.harvard.edu.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRHarvard NeuroDiscovery Center · US

Funding

Mechanistic Understanding for the Role of Lin28b in Pancreatic Cancer ProgressionR01CA235412 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI EL-BARDEESY, NABEEL, MOSTOSLAVSKY, RAUL · 2019 to 2023
$3.2M
Epigenetic Regulation of Hemidesmosome Signaling in Pancreatic CancerR03CA241971 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LISS, ANDREW · 2020 to 2020
$166k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA235412NCI NIH HHS R03 CA241971
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposePancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) lethality is multifactorial; although studies have identified transcriptional and genetic subsets of tumors with different prognostic significance, there is limited understanding of features associated with the minority of patients who have durable remission after surgical resection. In this study, we performed laser capture microdissection (LCM) of PDAC samples to define their cancer- and stroma-specific molecular subtypes and identify a prognostic gene expression signature for short-term and long-term survival. EXPERIMENTAL

designLCM and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis of cancer and adjacent stroma of 19 treatment-naïve PDAC tumors was performed. Gene expression signatures were tested for their robustness in a large independent validation set. An RNA-ISH assay with pooled probes for genes associated with disease-free survival (DFS) was developed to probe 111 PDAC tumor samples.

resultsGene expression profiling identified four subtypes of cancer cells (C1-C4) and three subtypes of cancer-adjacent stroma (S1-S3). These stroma-specific subtypes were associated with DFS (

conclusionsOur results identified specific signatures from the epithelial and the stroma components of PDAC, which add clarity to the nature of PDAC molecular subtypes and may help predict survival.

Indexed as

AgedBiomarkers, TumorCarcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalDatasets as TopicDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleFollow-Up StudiesGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansLaser Capture MicrodissectionMaleMiddle AgedPancreasPancreatectomyPancreatic NeoplasmsPrognosisBiomarkers, Tumor

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PMID33547202
PMCPMC8118131
OpenAlexW3128465509

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