DHCR24 and cancer: Herein, we analyzed the expression pattern of DHCR24 at both the mRNA and protein levels in a large set of clinical samples of EC combined with TCGA (the Cancer Genome Atlas, which generates comprehensive, multidimensional maps of the key genomic changes in 33 types of cancer) and GEO datasets (Gene Expression Omnibus, which is a public functional genomics data repository)19.