DAPK1 and neoplasm: DAPK1 has been shown to be associated with the severity of cervical cancer (Wang et al., 2018); DAPK1 upregulation suppresses tumor cell proliferation and improve apoptosis and autophagy (Bhattacharjee et al., 2018; Huang et al., 2018; Ren et al., 2018; Yadav et al., 2018).