One study showed that both SNAI1 and AXIN2 were expressed at higher levels in progressive (40.7% for SNAI1 and 26.3% for AXIN2) compared to static leukoplakia (8.7% for SNAI1 and 12.6% for AXIN2), and that both SNAI1 and AXIN2 were independent risk factors for transformation by multivariate analysis [22]. This evidence concerns the gene AXIN2 and Oral leukoplakia.