ULK1 and neoplasm: Age was positively correlated with the fall in expression levels between healthy and tumor cells of the four following genes: BECN1 Spearman’s correlation coefficient R = 0.343 (p = 0.003), UVRAG Spearman’s correlation coefficient R = 0.274 (p = 0.019), ATG13 Spearman’s correlation coefficient R = 0.271 (p = 0.021) and ULK1 Spearman’s correlation coefficient R = 0.274 (p = 0.024).