TPM1 and esophageal cancer: The TPM1 AS events were discovered to be informative in prognostic predictors for head and neck cancer (Liang et al, 2019), dilated cardiomyopathy (Pugh et al, 2014; Abascal et al, 2015), and migration of esophageal cancer cells (Huang et al, 2017), demonstrating the functional diversity of TPM1 AS isoforms.