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. Here, ELF3 is linked to colorectal neoplasm.