MASTL and breast cancer: As reported elsewhere [13, 14, 16], the protein and mRNA levels of MASTL were highly overexpressed in breast cancer tissues compared to in normal tissue counterparts (Fig. 1a-c) and MASTL was associated with breast cancer progression (Fig. 1d, e), as determined by the analysis of 79 breast cancer specimens (Fig. 1a, b, and d) and a public database (Fig. 1c and e).