KDM5A and cancer: KDM5A is ubiquitously expressed and involved in the control of cell proliferation and differentiation, and linked to several human cancers including acute myeloid leukemia (Wang et al., 2009), hepatocellular carcinoma (Liang et al., 2013), gastric cancer (Li et al., 2014), (Zeng et al., 2010), and lung cancer (Teng et al., 2013, Wang et al., 2013).