A method for enriching a population of somatic mammary stem cells or mammary tumor stem cells based on low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 6 (LRP6). Also included are methods for screening for LRP6 modulators, as well as methods for reducing Wnt signaling, for treating Wnt signaling-related diseases, for detecting mammary basal-like cells, for diagnosing basal-like breast cancer, and for inhibiting proliferation of a tumor expressing LRP6, and compositions thereof.

 
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> Generation of neural stem cells from undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells

> p27-deficient mouse exhibiting tissue hypertrophy

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