Thus NDRG2 could support the thesis that the seed grows better in the soil it resemble [45] as mentioned by Smid et al. Since biological evidence supporting this hypothesis was lacking, the present study aimed to proof the relevance of NDRG2 in basal-type breast cancer in two independent transient basal A-type in vitro cell models: BT20 and HCC1806 belong to the basal A subtype while published MDA-MB-231 cell models, showing a tumor suppressive function of NDRG2, belongs to the basal B subtype. Here, NDRG2 is linked to breast carcinoma.