The HIGH population expressed pluripotency genes at a greater frequency
than the other cell populations, and as with the previous analysis, Oct - 4 and DNMT3b were in general more uniformly expressed than were nanog, TDGF - 1 or GDF - 3 (Figure 3a — b).
The research team with international collaborators analysed more
than 100 patient samples from ovarian and
other cancer types to discover a distinct
population of
cells found in some tumours.