Table 1.

Correlation of stem cell gene expression in 47 patients with GBM

	CD133	MELK	E2F2	MAPK8 (P 1a)	MAPK8 (P 2)	BMP4	OLIG2 (P 1)	OLIG2 (P 2)	NES
CD133	–	0.22	−0.17	−0.21	−0.11	−0.24	−0.09	−0.06	0.04
MELK	0.22	–	0.22	−0.03	0.06	0.04	−0.14	−0.07	0.36
E2F2	−0.17	0.22	–	0.53	0.52	0.53	−0.16	−0.20	0.06
MAPK8 (PS 1)	−0.21	−0.03	0.53	–	0.81	0.43	0.13	0.22	−0.02
MAPK8 (PS 2)	−0.11	0.06	0.52	0.81	–	0.27	0.17	0.13	−0.01
BMP4	−0.24	0.04	0.53	0.43	0.27	–	−0.17	−0.13	0.15
OLIG2 (PS 1)	−0.09	−0.14	−0.16	0.13	0.17	−0.17	–	0.77	−0.05
OLIG2 (PS 2)	−0.06	−0.07	−0.20	0.22	0.13	−0.13	0.77	–	−0.11
NES	0.04	0.36	0.06	−0.02	−0.01	0.15	−0.05	−0.11	–

^a P probe. Both MAPK8 and OLIG2 had 2 probes available for analysis