SNAI1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: In their study, Liu D. and colleagues showed that HCV core protein was able to induce EMT in normal hepatocytes and HCC tumor cells through the down-regulation of E-cadherin and the up-regulation of EMT markers, such as vimentin, Snail Family Transcriptional Repressor 1 (SNAL1), and SNAL2 [51].