A gene expression signature shared by human mature oocytes and embryonic stem cells

Table 1 Samples of the microarray compendium

Cell type	Tissue or cell line	Normal or Malignant	Number of samples	References
Normal cell compendium (n = 205)
Human embryonic stem cells	Cell line	Normal	29	[38–43]
Mature oocytes	Cells	Normal	9	[18, 44, 45] and this study
Foreskin fibroblasts	Cell line	Normal	4	[40]
Ovary	Tissue	Normal	3	[46, 47]
Central nervous system	Tissue	Normal	44	[46, 47]
Peripheral nervous system	Tissue	Normal	18	[46, 47]
Skin and keratinocytes	Tissue and cultured primary cells	Normal	6	[39]
Lung	Tissue	Normal	11	[46, 47]
Digestive tract	Tissue	Normal	19	[46, 47]
Thyroid	Tissue	Normal	5	[46, 47]
Adipocytes	Tissue	Normal	2	[46, 47]
Kidney and prostate	Tissue	Normal	6	[46, 47]
Heart and muscle	Tissue	Normal	10	[46, 47]
Hematopoietic tissues	Tissue and purified cells	Normal	30	[39, 46, 47]
Uterus	Tissue	Normal	6	[46, 47]
Placenta	Tissue	Normal	3	[46, 47]
Highly cycling cells compendium (n = 22)
Leukemia cell lines	Cell line	Malignant	8	[47]
Lymphoma cell lines	Cell line	Malignant	4	[47]
Early erythroid cells	Cultured primary cells	Normal	2	[47]
Endothelial cells	Cultured primary cells	Normal	2	[47]
Hepatocarcinoma cell line	Cell line	Malignant	2	This study
Colorectal cancer cell line	Cell line	Malignant	2	[47]
Breast cancer cell line	Cell line	Malignant	2	This study

A summary of the microarray samples used in this study (A full list of samples is found in Additional file 1)