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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2012 Sep 23;490(7418):61–70. doi: 10.1038/nature11412

Table 1.

Summary of disease subtypes findings highlighting some of the dominant genomic, clinical, and proteomic features.

Luminal A Luminal B Basal-like HER2E
% ER+/HER2− 87% 82% 10% 20%
% HER2+ 7% 15% 2% 68%
% TNBC 2% 1% 80% 9%
p53 Pathway TP53 mut (12%)
Gain of MDM2 (14%)
TP53 mut (32%)
Gain of MDM2 (31%)
TP53 mut (84%)
Gain of MDM2 (14%)
TP53 mut (75%)
Gain of MDM2 (30%)
PIK3CA/PTEN Pathway PIK3CA mut (49%)
PTEN mut/loss (13%)
INPP4B loss (9%)
PIK3CA mut (32%)
PTEN mut/loss (24%)
INPP4B loss (16%)
PIK3CA mut (7%)
PTEN mut/loss (35%)
INPP4B loss (30%)
PIK3CA mut (42%)
PTEN mut/loss (19%)
INPP4B loss (30%)
RB1 Pathway Cyclin D1 amp (29%)
CDK4 gain (14%)
Low expression of CDKN2C
High expression of RB1
Cyclin D1 amp (58%)
CDK4 gain (25%)
RB1 mut/loss (20%)
Cyclin E1 amp (9%)
High expression of CDKN2A
Low expression of RB1
Cyclin D1 amp (38%)
CDK4 gain (24%)
mRNA Expression High ER cluster
Low proliferation
Lower ER cluster
High proliferation
Basal signature
High proliferation
HER2 amplicon signature
High proliferation
Copy Number Most diploid
Many with quiet genomes
1q, 8q, 8p11 gain
8p, 16q loss
11q13.3 amp (24%)
Most aneuploid
Many with focal amps
1q, 8q, 8p11 gain
8p, 16q loss
11q13.3 amp (51%)
8p11.23 amp (28%)
Most aneuploid
High genomic instability
1q, 10p gain
8p, 5q loss
MYC focal gain (40%)
Most aneuploid
High genomic instability
1q, 8q gain
8p loss
17q12 focal ERRB2 amp (71%)
DNA Mutations PIK3CA (49%)
TP53 (12%)
GATA3 (14%)
MAP3K1 (14%)
TP53 (32%)
PIK3CA (32%)
MAP3K1 (5%)
TP53 (84%)
PIK3CA (7%)
TP53 (75%)
PIK3CA (42%)
PIK3R1 (8%)
DNA Methylation Hyper-methylated phenotype for subset Hypo-methylated
Protein Expression High Estrogen-signaling
High cMYB
RPPA reactive subtypes
Less Estrogen-signaling
High FOXM1 and cMYC
RPPA reactive subtypes
High expression of DNA repair proteins, PTEN and INPP4B loss signature (p-AKT) High protein and phos-protein expression of HER1 and HER2

Percentages are based on 466 tumor overlap list