[Correction added after first online publication: The in‐text citation Esteban‐Jurado et al. (2016) has been changed to Peterlongo et al. (2015).] Wang et al., (2018) showed a novel function of Fanconi anemia protein FANCM in the protection of common fragile sites that is independent of the Fanconi anemia core complex and the FANCI‐FANCD2 complex. This evidence concerns the gene FANCM and Fanconi anemia.