By transcriptionally profiling single cells from patients spanning different stages of lung adenocarcinoma progression, we provide evidence of epithelial regeneration in untreated primary tumours and a continuum of phenotypic states spanning key stages of embryonic development and lung morphogenesis in metastases. We transcriptionally profiled 41,384 single cells obtained from fresh surgical human samples taken from non-tumour-involved lung (n = 4), primary lung adenocarcinomas (n = 8; 7 untreated and 1 post neo-adjuvant chemotherapy), as well as brain (n = 3), bone (n = 1), and adrenal (n = 1) lung adenocarcinoma metastases. These samples were derived from patients spanning various stages of tumour progression without enrichment for a specific cell type, such that the entire tumour and its microenvironment were sampled in an unbiased manner. Data from all patients were merged to create a global cell atlas of the normal lung, primary tumours, and metastases. SOURCE: Ashley,M,Laughney (ashley.laughney@gmail.com) - Joan Massague Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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GSE123902: The single cell transcriptional landscape of human lung adenocarcinoma (primary tumours and metastases)