To study the mechanism behind differential ERBB2 gene expression for epithelial and mesenchymal breast cancer cells, we investigated promoter CpG island methylation signatures of the ERBB2 gene in breast cancer cell lines with high ERBB2 expression (BT474, HCC-1954, MDA-MB-453, SKBR3), and those with low ERBB2 expression (BT20, MCF7, MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-468, SUM-159PT, T47D). Here, ERBB2 is linked to breast carcinoma.