To identify downstream effector genes of WNT/β-catenin signaling that might promote ESCC, functional annotation of differential expression from proteomic data and Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) from RNAseq data revealed extracellular matrix organization (Supplementary Fig. 25) and extracellular metalloproteins (MMP3 and MMP9, known β-catenin targets)35 gene sets (Supplementary Fig. 26) were enriched in tumor samples. This evidence concerns the gene MMP9 and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.