DLX6 and familial pancreatic carcinoma: To investigate the biological function of DLX6-AS1 in pancreatic cancer cells, CCK-8 assay, colony formation assay and Transwell migration/invasion assay were performed to measure the cell proliferation, migration and invasion in SW1990 and PANC-1 cells transfected with DLX6-AS1 siRNAs or scrambled siRNA.