To analyse the role of GLI1 in human breast cancer we carried out an initial realtime PCR analysis and found increased levels of GLI1 mRNA expression comparing the malignant mammary cell lines SKBR3, MDA-MB468, BT20, MDA-MB231 and MDA-MB435s to a set of benign mammary cell lines (HMEC and MCF12A). The gene discussed is GLI1; the disease is breast carcinoma.