AKIP1 and gastric cancer: As to gastric cancer, there is only one study that displays the correlation of AKIP1 overexpression with poor prognosis in gastric cancer patients, while sample size in that previous study (N = 96) is small, resulting in insufficient statistical power and limited clinical significance, and the correlation of AKIP1 with clinicopathological characteristics as well as prognosis of gastric cancer need further investigation.