Given a graph $G$ such that each vertex $v_i$ has a value $f(v_i)$, the expanded-clique graph $H$ is the graph where each vertex $v_i$ of $G$ becomes a clique $V_i$ of size $f(v_i)$ and for each edge $v_iv_j \in E(G)$, there is a vertex of $V_i$ adjacent to an exclusive vertex of $V_j$. In this work, among the results, we present two characterizations of the expanded-clique graphs, one of them leads to a linear-time recognition algorithm. Regarding the domination number, we show that this problem is \NP-complete for planar bipartite $3$-expanded-clique graphs and for cubic line graphs of bipartite graphs.