LCs across three lung cancer cell lines (A549, H1975, and H1299) displayed upregulation of EMT genes including SNAI2, TWIST1, ZEB1, ZEB2, TNNB1, NFKB1, NFKB2, and AKT1, yet SNAI1 and VIM were the only two EMT genes consistently upregulated across all LCs [18]. Here, AKT1 is linked to lung cancer.