Paulitti et al. (2018) confirmed that EMILIN2 have causes defective vascularization due to impaired EGFR-dependent IL-8 production affecting tumor growth. Haage et al. (2019) used bioinformatics analysis to identify EMILIN2 as a gene candidate distinguishing microglia from peripheral monocytes/macrophages in healthy and diseased cells. This evidence concerns the gene EGFR and neoplasm.