Breast Cancer Research

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Transcriptome analyses of mouse and human mammary cell subpopulations reveal multiple conserved genes and pathways

Elgene Lim1,2, Di Wu1,2, Bhupinder Pal1, Toula Bouras1, Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat1, François Vaillant1, Hideo Yagita3, Geoffrey J Lindeman1,4,5, Gordon K Smyth1,2 and Jane E Visvader1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia

2 Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia

3 Department of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan

4 Department of Medical Oncology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan St, Parkville, VIC 3050, Australia

5 Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Clinical Sciences Building, Parkville, VIC 3050, Australia

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Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:R21 doi:10.1186/bcr2560


See related editorial by McDermott and Wicha, http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/12/3/108

Published: 26 March 2010

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Supplementary methods. This file contains primer sequences.

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Expression of CD24. A figure demonstrating that CD24 is expressed in the luminal progenitor and mature luminal populations from human breast tissue.

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A heat map and multidimension scaling plot of mouse mammary populations. Includes the MaSC-enriched (CD29hiCD24+), luminal progenitor (CD29loCD24+CD61+), mature luminal (CD29loCD24+CD61-), and stromal (CD29loCD24-) subpopulations.

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Supplementary Table 1 containing conserved genes in the MaSC-enriched subset. The table gives the 489 genes which are up-regulated and the 428 genes which are down-regulated in the MaSC-enriched subset in both species.

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Supplementary Table 2 containing conserved genes in the luminal progenitor subset. The table gives the 58 genes which are up-regulated and the 14 genes which are down-regulated in the luminal progenitor subset in both species.

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Supplementary Table 3 containing conserved genes in the mature luminal subset. The table gives the 116 genes which are up-regulated and the 99 genes which are down-regulated in the mature luminal subset in both species.

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