Similarly, the studies from the genetic abrogation of Twist or Snail in mouse models of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and from EMT lineage tracing using Fsp1 and β-actin promoter in breast cancer mouse model have questioned the indispensability of full mesenchymal transition in the metastasis process (Fischer et al., 2015; Zheng et al., 2015). Here, SNAI1 is linked to breast cancer.