Specifically, ELF3 was annotated as a cancer gene for rectum adenocarcinoma, colorectal neoplasms, hematologic diseases and breast neoplasms in the database of DriverDB (Cheng et al., 2014), CoReCG (Agarwal et al., 2016), and DDMGD (Bin Raies et al., 2015) respectively. The gene discussed is ELF3; the disease is rectum adenocarcinoma.