The independent panel of 22 gastric cancer cell lines comprised: Kato III, NCI-N87, Hs746T,AZ521, Fu97, IM95, Ist1, MKN1, MKN45, MKN74,MKN28, MKN45,TMK1,SCH,YCC1, YCC3, YCC6, YCC7, YCC10, YCC11 and YCC16. This evidence concerns the gene IST1 and gastric cancer.