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. 2020 Jan 17;18(1):61. doi: 10.3390/md18010061

Table 4.

Molecular classification of the breast cancer/ normal cells.

Cell Lines Molecular Classification Years Source and Disease
Name Subtypes ER PR HER2
MDA-MB-453 HER2 + 1976 Female, 48 years, Caucasian, pericardial effusion, metastatic carcinoma
BT-549 Basal-like 1978 Female, 72 years, Caucasian, breast, ductal carcinoma [59]
MDA-MB-361 Luminal B + + 1974 Female, 40 years, Caucasian, brain, adenocarcinoma [60,61]
HS578T Basal-like 1977 Female, 74 years, Caucasian, breast, carcinoma [62]
Bcap-37 Luminal A + + 1981 Female, 48 years, Chinese, breast, medullary carcinoma [63]
HCC1395 Basal-like 1998 Female, 43 years, Caucasian, breast/duct, ductal carcinoma [34,64]
BT-483 Basal-like 1978 Female, 23 years, Caucasian, breast, ductal carcinoma [65,66]
SK-BR-3 HER2 + 1970 Female, 43 years, Caucasian, pleural effusion, adenocarcinoma [67]
BT-20 Basal-like 1958 Female, 74 years, Caucasian, breast, carcinoma [68]
ZR-75-30 Luminal A + + 1978 Female, 47 years, Black, ascites, ductal carcinoma [69]
HCC1806 Basal-like 1998 Female, 60 years, Black, breast, squamous carcinoma [34,64]
MCF-7 Luminal A + + 1973 Female, 69 years, Caucasian, pleural effusion, adenocarcinoma [59,60,70]
AU565 HER2 + 1970 Female, 43 years, Caucasian, malignant pleural effusion, malignant pleural effusion [67]
HCC1937 Basal-like 1998 Female, 23 years, Caucasian, breast/duct, ductal carcinoma [64,71]
MDA-MB-231 Basal-like 1974 Female, 51 years, Caucasian, pleural effusion, adenocarcinoma [60,61]
MDA-MB-157 Basal-like 1972 Female, 44 years, Black, breast/medulla, medullary carcinoma [72]
BT-474 Luminal B + + + 1978 Female, 60 years, Caucasian, breast/duct, ductal carcinoma [59,65,66]
MCF-12A Normal 1992 Female, 60 years, Caucasian, breast, fibrocystic, disease [66]
MCA-10A Normal 1984 Female, 36 years, Caucasian, breast, fibrocystic, disease [37,66]
HS578BST Normal 1977 Female, 74 years, Caucasian, breast, normal [62]

ER: Estrogen receptor; PR: Progesterone Receptor; HER2: Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor2. MCF-12A, MCF-10A and HS578BST were considered human normal mammary gland epithelial cell lines, others were breast cancer cells.