In addition to protein levels, NSD3 induces global H3K36 dimethylation in pancreatic cancer cells and influences the mRNA levels for genes including ADAM28, ADAM9, BIRC3, CXCL5, DUOX2, GABRP, ITGB6, and RAB11FIP1. Here, CXCL5 is linked to familial pancreatic carcinoma.