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Immunogenomic Diversity of Triple-Negative Breast Cancers in Obese and Non-obese Black and White Women

GSE268851 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 253 samples Submitted 2025/09/18 Platform GPL18573
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 253 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
Breast cancerThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
253 samples
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Integrated miRNA-mRNA Analyses of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in Black and White Patients with or Without ObesityInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
Racial disparities in incidence and outcomes of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) have been attributed to ancestry, socioeconomic factors and/or obesity. We studied 253 TNBCs from 128 Black and 125 White women. Arms were balanced for age, AJCC stage, histological grade and molecular subtypes, and differed significantly in BMI distribution, obesity, and Area Deprivation Index.
Read the full summary ↓
We examined survival rates, whole-transcriptome RNASeq and genetic ancestry. In our sample, Black race or obesity were not intrinsically predictive of poor outcomes. TNBC molecular portraits varied with stage and biological aggressiveness, irrespective of race. We identified a novel group of TNBCs with a distinctive luminal-like and stem-cell-like transcriptional profile that were equally distributed among Blacks and Whites. Genetic ancestry was highly admixed. Immune deconvolution showed a higher abundance of several immune cell populations in tumors from Blacks, which may have precision therapeutic significance, warranting further investigation of potential drivers of tumor immunity.
Published in
Integrated miRNA-mRNA Analyses of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in Black and White Patients with or Without Obesity
Hossain F, Gonzalez-Ramirez MI, Garai J et al. · International journal of molecular sciences 2025 · PMID 41009685 · doi:10.3390/ijms26189101
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE268851_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1119054 and SRA study SRP511178. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
A cohort of 253 individual samples

The grouping that defines any comparison lives in the sample characteristics, which GEO records separately from the titles.

How we read this: Sample titles run TNBC_0010 … TNBC_1115 and carry no group information.

Samples in this study

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