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. 2016 Sep 23;3(4):260–267. doi: 10.1016/j.ajur.2016.09.009

Table 1.

Molecular subtypes of bladder cancer.

TCGA Lund MDACC UNC Properties
Cluster I UroA, GU Luminal Luminal FGFR3 mutations, papillary features
Cluster II Infiltrated P53-like Luminal CAFs, immune cells
Cluster III SCC-like, UroB Basal Basal-like Stem cell biomarkers, squamous features
Cluster IV Infiltrated P53-like Claudin-low EMT, CAFs, immune cells

Transcriptome profiling and unsupervised analyses were used by several groups to identify candidate molecular subtypes of bladder cancer. Cross comparisons of the results obtained by 4 of the groups are presented above as examples. These comparisons are meant to be illustrative rather than definitive, but they show how the overall concordance among the approaches was very high. Also see Aine et al., Sci Rep 2015 [37] for a more detailed analysis.