“…The analysis of gene expression in the human and mouse hepatocytes, cardiomyocytes, trophoblast cells, neurons, adipose mesenchymal stem cells, interstitial cardiac stem cells, drosophila epithelial cells, and various types of cancer cells indicate that polyploidy can exert both common and specific effects [ 7 , 69 , 73 , 78 , 83 , 84 , 110 , 111 , 112 ]. The common effects are the induction of biological pathways related to stress response (i.e., abiotic, biotic, hypoxic, oxidative, genotoxic, and inflammatory), response to DNA instability, and drug resistance [ 7 , 57 , 69 , 72 , 83 , 87 , 113 , 114 , 115 ]. Polyploidy also activates the signaling cascades involved in embryogenesis (including Notch, TGFb, Hippo, Myc, EGFR, and WNT) and the growth-related gene modules implicated in stemness, DNA synthesis, glycolysis, and ribosome biogenesis [ 1 , 7 , 11 , 72 , 74 , 77 , 78 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 116 ].…”