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SUBMITTER: Dunne PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5460026 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dunne Philip D PD Alderdice Matthew M O'Reilly Paul G PG Roddy Aideen C AC McCorry Amy M B AMB Richman Susan S Maughan Tim T McDade Simon S SS Johnston Patrick G PG Longley Daniel B DB Kay Elaine E McArt Darragh G DG Lawler Mark M
Nature communications 20170531
Stromal-derived intratumoural heterogeneity (ITH) has been shown to undermine molecular stratification of patients into appropriate prognostic/predictive subgroups. Here, using several clinically relevant colorectal cancer (CRC) gene expression signatures, we assessed the susceptibility of these signatures to the confounding effects of ITH using gene expression microarray data obtained from multiple tumour regions of a cohort of 24 patients, including central tumour, the tumour invasive front an ...[more]