Our analysis revealed several proteins associated with aging and cancer among the top 5% of unique bowhead residues by concentration (i.e., normalized by protein length), including ERCC1 (excision repair cross-complementing rodent repair deficiency, complementation group 1), HDAC1 (histone deacetylase 1), and HDAC2 (Figure 2A). The gene discussed is ERCC1; the disease is cancer.