Mutations of the SOD1 gene have been linked to numerous human diseases and cancers, such as and Down syndrome and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Indeed 20% of ALS cases are associated with mutations in SOD1 (Brasil et al., 2019), Somwar et al. (2011) reported that SOD1 was overexpressed in lung adenocarcinomas when compared with the normal lung tissue, while Glasauer et al. (2014) found that inhibition of SOD1 by the small molecule ATN-224 induced NSCLC cell death. Here, SOD1 is linked to Down syndrome.