Pan-cancer characterization of HMGA1 reveals its oncogenic role in tumor microenvironment and stemness: functional validation in pancreatic cancer migration and invasion
HMGA1 was upregulated in most tumor types, and high expression was associated with unfavorable survival in multiple cancers, including PAAD, support an association-based model in which promoter hypomethylation-associated HMGA1 activation is linked to malignant epithelial stemness/plasticity, ECM/adhesion-dominant TME r...