On the other hand, Meurs et al. (2013) have claimed that myocardiac striatin is a desmosomal protein, whereas Breitman et al. (2008) have reported that striatins do not occur in desmosomes but in other kinds of junctions of epithelia and carcinoma cells (for a review, see Hwang and Pallas 2013). The gene discussed is STRN; the disease is carcinoma.