Therefore, we sought to explain the discrepancy between our study and the report by Watkins et al. Our analysis of gene expression data from TCGA showed that similar to TNBC, HORMAD1 RNA expression was significantly upregulated in lung adenocarcinoma tumors relative to tumor adjacent normal tissue (Mann-Whitney p = 3.91e-11, Fig. 5a). This evidence concerns the gene HORMAD1 and neoplasm.