EPCAM and cancer: They discriminated ITH according to the average expression of 10 cancer stemness genes, namely EPCAM, CD24, CD44, CD47, KRT19, PROM1, ALDH1A1, ANPEP, ICAM1 and SOX9. This allowed them to derive diversity scores based on transcriptomic profiles, grouping the tumors into Div-high and Div-low groups.