As can be seen in Figure 2, African Americans with precancerous gastric lesions (MAG and IM) and infected with H. pylori showed the highest DMBT1 expression, as compared to the other diagnoses (p=0.007 compared to normal mucosa), suggesting an association between the expression of this gene and the infection with H. pylori, as has been shown for this protein in other models of infection [42–44]. Here, DMBT1 is linked to infection.