Tumor suppressive roles for autophagy were demonstrated in mice with Becn1/Beclin-1 heterozygosity, systemic mosaic Atg5 deletion or liver-specific deletion of Atg7 (Green and Levine, 2014; Lorin et al., 2013; Mizushima and Komatsu, 2011). This evidence concerns the gene ATG7 and neoplasm.