HDGF and gastric cancer: In gastric cancer (GC), METTL3 can cause m6A to accumulate on HDGF mRNA, which indicates proliferation and poor prognosis and enhances the stability of zinc finger MYM-type containing 1 (ZMYM1) mRNA so that it accelerates epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and metastasis [114, 115].