We analyzed gene expression data for normal human tissues downloaded from the Uhlen’s Lab, GTEx, and Illumina Body Map databases within the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Gene Expression Atlas.57 We found that HABP2 was not expressed in the thyroid gland but was highly expressed in the liver (Supplementary Fig. 1), consistent with the observation of Gara et al. that normal thyroid tissue does not stain for HABP2,7 also corroborated experimentally.20 Despite its potentially compelling nature, such data can support, but not exclude, a cancer predisposition variant. Here, HABP2 is linked to cancer.