This includes inference of a pseudomeiotic role for REC8 in endoploid cells induced after ionizing irradiation (Erenpreisa et al., 2009) and the finding that REC8 might be a tumour suppressor required to inhibit the epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition in gastric cancers, possibly via a transcriptional regulation function (Yu et al., 2017; Zhao et al., 2018). The gene discussed is REC8; the disease is gastric cancer.