Among 55 adult tissues analyzed through GTEx, the STMN3 expression is the highest in the 13 CNS tissues (GTEX portal access 18 June, 2020); furthermore, messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein of this gene are overexpressed in human glioma of all grades as compared with normal brain tissues (Zhang et al., 2015). Here, STMN3 is linked to glioma.