Molecular Phenotyping Reveals the Identity of Barrett’s Esophagus and Its Malignant Transition

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A combination of single-cell transcriptomic profiling, in silico lineage tracing from methylation, open chromatin and somatic mutation analyses, and functional studies in organoid models showed that Barrett’s esophagus originated from gastric cardia through c-MYC and HNF4A-driven transcriptional programs.
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Nowicki-Osuch, K., Zhuang, L., Jammula, S., Bleaney, C. W., Mahbubani, K. T., Devonshire, G., Katz-Summercorn, A., Eling, N., Wilbrey-Clark, A., Madissoon, E., Gamble, J., Pietro, M. D., O’Donovan, M., Meyer, K. B., Saeb-Parsy, K., Sharrocks, A. D., Teichmann, S. A., Marioni, J. C., & Fitzgerald, R. C. (2021). Molecular phenotyping reveals the identity of Barrett’s esophagus and its malignant transition. Science, 373(6556), 760–767. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd1449 Cite
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