We have independently looked at the expression of CXCL12 and CXCR4 in TGCTs (McIver SC, Loveland KL, Roman SD, Nixon B, Kitazawa R, McLaughlin EA, unpublished observations) and confirmed that CXCR4 mRNA was overexpressed in seminomas. The gene discussed is CXCR4; the disease is seminoma.