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Record W4410308738 · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115699

Fitness and transcriptional plasticity of human breast cancer single-cell-derived clones

2025· article· en· W4410308738 on OpenAlexafffund
Long Nguyen, Yaniv Eyal-Lubling, Daniel Guerrero-Romero, Sarah Kronheim, Suet‐Feung Chin, Raquel Manzano García, Stephen‐John Sammut, Giulia Lerda, Allan J.W. Lui, Helen Bardwell, Wendy Greenwood, Riccardo Masina, Katarzyna Kania, Alejandra Bruna, Elham Esmaeilishirazifard, Emily Kolyvas, Samuel Aparício, Oscar M. Rueda, Carlos Caldas

Bibliographic record

VenueCell Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicSingle-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity Health NetworkPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre
FundersNIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research CentreEuropean Society for Medical OncologyNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchTemerty Faculty of Medicine, University of TorontoEuropean Research CouncilConquer Cancer FoundationCancer Research UKJ.P. Bickell FoundationAssociation of Schools and Colleges of OptometryUK Research and InnovationPrincess Margaret Cancer Foundation
KeywordsBreast cancerBiologyCancerHuman breastPlasticityCellGeneticsComputational biologyCell biology

Abstract

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Clonal fitness and plasticity drive cancer heterogeneity. We used expressed lentiviral-based cellular barcodes combined with single-cell RNA sequencing to associate single-cell profiles with in vivo clonal growth. This generated a significant resource of growth measurements from over 20,000 single-cell-derived clones in 110 xenografts from 26 patient-derived breast cancer xenograft models. 167,375 single-cell RNA profiles were obtained from 5 models and revealed that rare propagating clones display a highly conserved model-specific differentiation program with reproducible regeneration of the entire transcriptomic landscape of the original xenograft. In 2 models of basal breast cancer, propagating clones demonstrated remarkable transcriptional plasticity at single-cell resolution. Dichotomous cell populations with different clonal growth properties, signaling pathways, and metabolic programs were characterized. By directly linking clonal growth with single-cell transcriptomes, these findings provide a profound understanding of clonal fitness and plasticity with implications for cancer biology and therapy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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