Table 4.

Mean fold change in gene transcription in the initiated colonic mucosa of tumor-bearing vs tumor-free Apc^+/Min-FCCC mice after removing outliers.

Gene	Pathway	Fold Change	P-value*
Ascl2	Cellular Stemness	1.08	0.75
Ereg	EGFR signaling	1.06	0.84
Grem1	Cellular stemness	0.77	0.29
Lgr5	Cellular stemness	0.79	0.25
Mmp9	Inflammation	0.91	0.73
Muc2	Cellular differentiation	0.92	0.64
Ptgs2	Inflammation	1.25	0.30
Reg4	Inflammation	0.95	0.74

*Two-sided Welch’s t-test.