LMO7 in gastric cancer has not been dealt with in any reports, but another isoform, LMO4 (a transcriptional regulator) inhibits differentiation of mammary epithelial cells in vitro and is overexpressed in breast cancers (Putilina et al, 1998; Kurihara et al, 2002). This evidence concerns the gene LMO7 and breast carcinoma.