DPT and cancer: Additionally, multiple signaling pathways linked to cancer progression and prognosis, such as Wnt/β-catenin, Hippo/YAP, TGF-β, and ERK/MAPK pathways, have also been correlated with DPT expression (Catalán et al. 2022; Guo et al. 2019; Liu et al. 2020; Ye et al. 2023).