TRIM9 and cancer: Although methylation of these other genes has reportedly been detected in other types of cancers than breast cancer (Zhang et al. 2015; Li et al. 2015a, b; Grote et al. 2005), TRIM9 is methylated specifically in breast cancer according to the Illumina Human Methylation 450 database (http://cancergenome.nih.gov/), implying that TRIM9 may function as a methylation marker that is specific to breast cancer.