I am not sure how much details you want but please look at the link below, this link will also give you recent articles on this topic. hope this will help.
As the cell line is too common, we cannot have a review kind of article to answer the query. Here are properties and characteristics of the MDA-MB-231:
The cell line is aneuploid female (modal number = 64, range = 52 to 68), with chromosome counts in the near-triploid range. Normal chromosomes N8 and N15 were absent. Eleven stable rearranged marker chromosomes are noted as well as unassignable chromosomes in addition to the majority of autosomes that are trisomic. Many of the marker chromosomes are identical to those shown in the karyotype reported by K.L. Satya-Prakash, et al. A tumorigenic cell line having epidermal growth factor (EGF), expressed transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha), expressed.