Glioma cells treated with TAL1 inhibition had decreased proliferation, migrating and invading glioma cell numbers and increased apoptosis ratio compared with that in sh-NC group, whereas overexpressed TAL1 induced enhanced cell proliferation (Fig. 5e), promoted cell migration and invasion ability (Fig. 5f) and significantly inhibited cell apoptosis (Fig. 5g). Here, TAL1 is linked to glioma.