Gene expression profiling supports the hypothesis that human ovarian surface epithelia are multipotent and capable of serving as ovarian cancer initiating cells

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[2] Wong AS(1993)Cellular origin of cancer: dedifferentiation or stem cell maturation arrest? Environ Health Perspect 5 15-26

[3] Choi KC(2003)BRCA1/2-related ovarian cancers are of tubal origin: a hypothesis Gynecol Oncol 90 491-442

[4] Kang SK(1999)The cell of origin of ovarian epithelial tumors and the ovarian surface epithelium dogma: does the emperor have no clothes? Gynecol Oncol 72 437-236

[5] Leung PC(2006)The tubal fimbria is a preferred site for early adenocarcinoma in women with familial ovarian cancer syndrome Am J Surg Pathol 30 230-35

[6] Sell S(2007)A candidate precursor to serous carcinoma that originates in the distal fallopian tube J Pathol 211 26-64

[7] Piek JM(2006)Clinical and pathologic findings of prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomies in 159 BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers Gynecol Oncol 100 58-1864

[8] Verheijen RH(1994)Early de novo ovarian carcinoma. A study of fourteen cases Cancer 73 1859-12473

[9] Kenemans P(2008)Normal ovarian surface epithelial label-retaining cells exhibit stem/progenitor cell characteristics Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105 12469-537

[10] Massuger LF(2005)Lineage infidelity of epithelial ovarian cancers is controlled by HOX genes that specify regional identity in the reproductive tract Nat Med 11 531-111

[1] Auersperg N(2001)Ovarian surface epithelium: biology, endocrinology, and pathology Endocr Rev 22 255-288

[2] Wong AS(1993)Cellular origin of cancer: dedifferentiation or stem cell maturation arrest? Environ Health Perspect 5 15-26

[3] Choi KC(2003)BRCA1/2-related ovarian cancers are of tubal origin: a hypothesis Gynecol Oncol 90 491-442

[4] Kang SK(1999)The cell of origin of ovarian epithelial tumors and the ovarian surface epithelium dogma: does the emperor have no clothes? Gynecol Oncol 72 437-236

[5] Leung PC(2006)The tubal fimbria is a preferred site for early adenocarcinoma in women with familial ovarian cancer syndrome Am J Surg Pathol 30 230-35

[6] Sell S(2007)A candidate precursor to serous carcinoma that originates in the distal fallopian tube J Pathol 211 26-64

[7] Piek JM(2006)Clinical and pathologic findings of prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomies in 159 BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers Gynecol Oncol 100 58-1864

[8] Verheijen RH(1994)Early de novo ovarian carcinoma. A study of fourteen cases Cancer 73 1859-12473

[9] Kenemans P(2008)Normal ovarian surface epithelial label-retaining cells exhibit stem/progenitor cell characteristics Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105 12469-537

[10] Massuger LF(2005)Lineage infidelity of epithelial ovarian cancers is controlled by HOX genes that specify regional identity in the reproductive tract Nat Med 11 531-111