Integration of microRNA signatures of distinct mammary epithelial cell types with their gene expression and epigenetic portraits
Conclusions:
The derivation of global miRNA expression profiles for the different mammary subpopulations provides a comprehensive resource for understanding the interplay between miRNA networks and target gene expression. These data have highlighted lineage-specific miRNAs and potential miRNA-mRNA networks, some of which are disrupted in neoplasia. Furthermore, our findings suggest that key developmental miRNAs are regulated by global changes in histone modification, thus linking the mammary epigenome with genome-wide changes in the expression of genes and miRNAs. Comparative miRNA signature analyses between normal breast epithelial cells and breast tumors confirmed an important linkage between luminal progenitor cells and basal-like tumors.
Source: Breast Cancer Research - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Bhupinder PalYunshun ChenAndrew BertYifang HuJulie SheridanTamara BeckWei ShiKeith SatterleyPaul JamiesonGregory GoodallGeoffrey LindemanGordon SmythJane Visvader Source Type: research
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