MAPK9 and breast carcinoma: Interestingly, ZIP9 was found significantly up-regulated in breast cancer tissues compared with normal breast tissues [19], the ZIP9-encoding SLC39A9 gene has been observed to form a fusion transcript with MAP3K9 gene (encoding for Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 9, MAP3K9), and the resulting fusion gene has been reported with repetitive incidence in different types of breast cancer [20] (Figure 1).