PCDH7 and breast carcinoma: For example, PCDH7 was found to promote cell proliferation in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells (Li et al., 2013), but failed to do so in BGC-823 and MKN-45 gastric cancer cells (Chen et al., 2017), and MCF7 and MDA-MB-436 breast cancer cells in this study (Figures 5G,H).