KLF17 and breast carcinoma: The first research on KLF17 in breast cancer conducted by Gumireddy et al. [23] in 2009 reported that lower expression of KLF17 was involved in breast cancer metastasis; lower expression of KLF17 was found in breast cancer cell lines with an invasive phenotype, and lower expression of KLF17 was found in the patients with lymph node metastases compared in the patients without metastases.