MORC2 and gastric cancer: To uncover new function of MORC2, we carried out a microarray experiment and found a lot of MORC2 target genes which are involved in a variety of biological functions including cell cycle and cell apoptosis, material transport and metabolism, cell adhesion and cell motility, immune response and etc. Most of these MORC2 target genes were down-regulated, among which p21 is down-regulated markedly in Flag-MORC2/SGC-7901 cells (an exogenous MORC2 stable expression gastric cancer cell line) compared to vector control.