The most prominent function of snail1 in cancer cells is to induce the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) [46, 47], and it was recently reported that CTHRC1 upregulated snail1 to induce EMT by activating the Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway in epithelial ovarian cancer [48]. Here, SNAI1 is linked to ovarian carcinoma.