As illustrated in the heatmaps, pyrimidine metabolic rate–limiting enzymes CAD, CTPS, CTPS2, DHODH, DTYMK, NT5C3, RRM1, RRM2, TK2, TYMS, UCK2, and UCKL1 were highly expressed in tumor tissues (Fig. 11). This evidence concerns the gene UCK2 and neoplasm.