EHMT2 and cancer: The fact that EHMT2 functions in the regulation of various processes, including cellular differentiation, proliferation, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), senescence, DNA replication and DNA repair among others, has suggested a key role for this protein in the epigenetics of human cancers (Shinkai and Tachibana, 2011; Dong et al., 2012; Casciello et al., 2015; Yang et al., 2017).