On the other hand, previous studies have suggested that FOXF2 and FOXQ1 play opposite roles in controlling epithelial-mesenchymal transition and visceral metastasis in basal-like breast cancer cells (Qiao et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2011; Cai et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2015; Kang et al., 2019). This evidence concerns the gene FOXQ1 and breast cancer.