A recent study looked at 17-gene expression microarray datasets from GEO, and AHNAK2 was found to be one of seven differentially expressed genes (DEGs) (AHNAK2, CDH3, IFI27, ITGA2, LAMB3, SLC6A14, and TMPRSS4) that differentiated between pancreatic cancer and non-tumour tissues with an AUC of more than 0.85. This evidence concerns the gene AHNAK2 and pancreatic neoplasm.