Human adult HSCs can be discriminated from lineage-committed HPCs by the expression of endomucin.
Reckzeh K., Kizilkaya H., Helbo AS., Alrich ME., Deslauriers AG., Grover A., Rapin N., Asmar F., Grønbæk K., Porse B., Borregaard N., Vestweber D., Nerlov C., Theilgaard-Mönch K.
EMCN is a novel marker of human HSCs. EMCN is a more specific marker of HSCs than CD34 as it can discriminate HSCs from lineage-committed HPCs.