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. 2010 Jun 8;4(5):373–384. doi: 10.1016/j.molonc.2010.05.001

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Tumour initiation by the cell of origin. Recently, it was shown that adenomas induced by loss of APC originate from the normal stem cells of the intestine, not the progenitors or differentiated cells. LGR5 expressing stem cells are the cells of origin.