HMGA1 and breast carcinoma: We focused on MDA-MB-231 cells because they are triple-negative and basal-like breast cancer cells and we previously showed, by performing a bioinformatic analysis of a primary breast cancer public microarray data collection (1881 different samples), that HMGA1 mRNA levels were higher in the basal-like than the HER2+, the luminal A and B, and normal-like subtypes [29].