Analysis of a TCGA lung adenocarcinoma cohort determined an inverse correlation between expression of LIMD1 and HIF target genes SLC2A1, GAPDH and IGF2BP2. Overexpression of glucose transporter 1 (GLUT‐1), the uniporter protein encoded by the SLC2A1 gene, is correlated with poor survival in most solid tumours (Wang et al, 2017), and selective GLUT‐1 inhibition has been demonstrated to inhibit glucose uptake and reduce viability of lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma cell lines in vitro and in vivo (Goodwin et al, 2017). Here, SLC2A1 is linked to lung adenocarcinoma.