For example, K1 and K10, two markers of the stratum spinosum, were seldom expressed (4 of 30 and 6 of 30 carcinomas, respectively) in neoplasms other than adenosquamous carcinomas that exhibited cornification, whereas involucrin, a marker of the stratum corneum, was expressed in 19 of 30 such neoplasms. This evidence concerns the gene IVL and neoplasm.