It has similar expression pattern and prognostic effect to NEDD9 (Singh et al., 2008; Kondo et al., 2012; Li et al., 2016), and is related to the prognosis of many cancer patients such as gastric cancer and glioma (Speranza et al., 2012; Shi et al., 2014). The gene discussed is NEDD9; the disease is central nervous system cancer.