DGAT2 and neoplasm: As shown in Table 3, within tumor tissue, TG levels exhibited a positive correlation with DGAT1 at both the mRNA (r = 0.630, p = 0.008) and protein levels (r = 0.562, p = 0.026), while demonstrating a significant positive association with DGAT2 protein (r = 0.850, p = 0.003).