Exposure of astrocytes to TGF‐β1 induced gene expression of TRPM7 and a recent study described that TGFβ‐induced epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition in prostate cancer is mediated via TRPM7 expression (Sun, Schaar, Sukumaran, Dhasarathy, & Singh, 2018). This evidence concerns the gene TGFB1 and prostate cancer.