Coincidentally, Hofmann and colleagues detected BAGE, MAGE-A1, MAGE-A3 and GAGE1/-2 mRNAs in peritoneal fluid from ovarian cancer patients using multiplex RT-PCR analysis, with the combination of the four markers exhibiting increased diagnostic sensitivity of 94% compared with cytomorphology alone [24]. Here, MAGEA3 is linked to ovarian carcinoma.