Table 2.

Common pro- and antiapoptosis genes.

Bcl-2 family	Bcl-2, Bcl-XL, Bcl-W, Mcl-1, CEd-9, and so forth	Antiapoptosis
	Bax, Bak, Bcl-XS, Bad, Bik, Bid, and so forth	Proapoptosis
Caspase family	Caspase-2, caspase-3, caspase-6, caspase-7, caspase-8, caspase-9, caspase-10, and so forth
Others	Fas, p53, NPRL2, PKIP, THY1, and so forth