Most importantly, using the same microarray platform, we found a similar distribution of DERL3 hypermethylation among the primary tumour types when we analysed the public DNA methylation data from The Cancer Genome Atlas efforts ( https://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga/); (Fig. 6e and Supplementary Table 3). The gene discussed is DERL3; the disease is neoplasm.