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SUBMITTER: Weigelt B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC307665 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Weigelt Britta B Glas Annuska M AM Wessels Lodewyk F A LF Witteveen Anke T AT Peterse Johannes L JL van't Veer Laura J LJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20031209 26
It has been debated for decades how cancer cells acquire metastatic capability. It is unclear whether metastases are derived from distinct subpopulations of tumor cells within the primary site with higher metastatic potential, or whether they originate from a random fraction of tumor cells. Here we show, by gene expression profiling, that human primary breast tumors are strikingly similar to the distant metastases of the same patient. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering, multidimensional scalin ...[more]