Table 1. Stem and cancer stem cell marker overlap in the major epithelia.

Marker	Stem cell marker	Species	Cancer stem cell marker	Species
CD24	Intestine (von Furstenberg et al, 2011)	Mus	Intestine (Vermeulen et al, 2008)	Homo
	Breast (Shackleton et al, 2006)	Mus	Ovary (Gao et al, 2010)	Homo
	Lung (McQualter et al, 2010)	Mus	Pancreas (Yao et al, 2010)	Homo
	Neuronal (Pruszak et al, 2009)	Homo
	Pancreas (Wang et al, 2005)	Mus
CD44	Intestine (Hou et al, 2010)	Homo	Intestine (Dalerba et al, 2007)	Homo
	Prostate (Liu et al, 1997)	Homo	Breast (Al-Hajj et al, 2003)	Homo
			Pancreas (Yao et al, 2010)	Homo
			Prostate (Patrawala et al, 2006)	Homo
			Liver (Zhu et al, 2010)	Homo
CD133	Intestine (Snippert et al, 2009)	Mus	Intestine (O’Brien et al, 2007; Ricci-Vitiani et al, 2007)	Homo
	Prostate (Richardson et al, 2004)	Homo	Breast (Wright et al, 2008)	Mus
			Prostate (Collins et al, 2005)	Homo
			Ovary (Ferrandina et al, 2009)	Homo
			Brain (Singh et al, 2004)	Homo
			Liver (Zhu et al, 2010)	Homo
CD166	Intestine (Levin et al, 2010)	Homo	Intestine (Dalerba et al, 2007)	Homo
		Mus	Prostate (Rajasekhar et al, 2011)	Homo
Lgr5	Intestine (Barker et al, 2007)	Mus	Intestine (Barker et al, 2009)	Mus
	Skin (Jaks et al, 2008)	Mus
Olfm4	Intestine (van der Flier et al, 2009)	Homo	Intestine (van der Flier et al, 2009)	Mus
Aldh1	Intestine (Huang et al, 2009)	Homo	Intestine (Huang et al, 2009)	Homo
	Breast (Ginestier et al, 2007)		Breast (Ginestier et al, 2007)	Homo
		Homo	Ovary (Kryczek et al, 2011)	Homo
			Lung (Liang and Shi, 2011)	Homo
Integrins	Intestine (Fujimoto et al, 2002)	Homo	Breast (Vassilopoulos et al, 2008)	Mus
	Breast (Shackleton et al, 2006)	Mus	Prostate (Collins et al, 2005)	Homo
	Neuronal (Pruszak et al, 2009)	Homo
Bmi1	Intestine (Sangiorgi and Capecchi, 2008)	Mus	Brain (Bruggeman et al, 2007)	Mus
	Neuronal (Molofsky et al, 2003)	Mus	Liver (Chiba et al, 2008)	Homo
	Prostate (Lukacs et al, 2010)	Mus
Musashi1	Intestine (Potten et al, 2003)	Mus