FOXA1 and breast carcinoma: To investigate the relationship between BRCA1 and FOXA1, western blot analysis was performed on a panel of six breast cancer cell lines, which include the luminal-type MCF-7 cells with wild-type BRCA1 and the basal-type lines HCC70, MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-436, SUM1315MO2 and MDA-MB-468 expressing either low or mutated BRCA121 (Figure 1a).