Marker   Stem cell marker   Biomarker diagnostic   Biomarker therapeutic   Biomarker prognostic
Surface markers, CD
CD44 (and its variants)  (61–66)  (39, 67–69)* (70)**  (71)  (71–80)  (61, 64, 70, 81) (39, 69)*
CD87  (82)
CD90  (83)  (39, 67)*
CD133  (84–99)  (39, 67–69)*  (70, 100)**   (74, 101–104) (69)*  (91, 105–112)  (39, 67, 68)*  (70)**
CD166  (62, 66, 113)  (39, 68)*    (113)
Surface markers, not CD
EpCAM  (62, 66, 86, 114, 115)  (116–120)  (121)  (117, 122–124)
Intracellular markers
ALDH  (65, 84, 114, 125–129)  (39, 68, 69, 130)*  (131)  (132–134)  (62, 128, 135)  (39, 69, 130)*  (70, 126)**
Nanog  (70)    (70, 126) (69)*
Oct-3/4  (96)  (67, 69)*   (67)*  (136) (69)*