To further investigate the mechanism by which ZNF671 inhibits cell proliferation in NPC, we performed gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) in the GEO database to identify pathways potentially linked to ZNF671. As shown in Fig. 6a, pathways related to hallmarks of the mitotic spindle and G2/M checkpoint genes were enriched in GSE12452 database. Here, ZNF671 is linked to nasopharyngeal carcinoma.