“…Indeed, elevated expression of HMGI proteins correlates with the appearance of a malignant phenotype in rat thyroid transformed cells and in thyroid and skin experimental tumours (Giancotti et al, 1985(Giancotti et al, , 1987(Giancotti et al, , 1989. Similarly, HMGI(Y) protein levels are high in such human carcinomas as thyroid (Chiappetta et al, 1995(Chiappetta et al, , 1998, colon Abe et al, 1999;Chiappetta et al, 2001), prostate (Tamimi et al, 1993), pancreas (Abe et al, 2000) and cervix (Bandiera et al, 1998), but not in their normal counterparts.…”