LATS2 and gastric cancer: Molina et al. have shown that H. pylori infection of gastric epithelial cells induces the expression of both YAP1 and LATS2 from the gastritis stage (early stage of the Correa’s cascade of H. pylori-induced gastric carcinogenesis) [43,106], which continues increasing at the intestinal metaplasia and GC stages [106].