Studies have shown that variants of the ATG7 gene are related to some diseases, such as sporadic Parkinson’s disease (Chen et al., 2013), systemic lupus erythematous (Dang et al., 2016), acute myocardial infarction (Zhang et al., 2018), and primary ovarian insufficiency (Song et al., 2015). Here, ATG7 is linked to myocardial infarction.