In addition, in a study of primary small cell lung cancer (SCLC), using cells and tissue from both normal lung tissue and from lung biopsies and metastases of untreated SCLC patients, it was observed that while SLCO4A1 was the most widely expressed of 11 SLC transporters investigated, SLCO5A1 was the most highly expressed of the OATPs in a cell line derived from an SCLC patient liver metastasis (DMS153). This evidence concerns the gene SLCO5A1 and small cell lung carcinoma.