Significantly positive correlations among BPTF, SIN3A, CNOT1 and YY1 could also be acquired with a TCGA pan-cancer analysis performed by Gene Expression Profiling Interactive Analysis (GEPIA) (Supplementary Figure 5); however, their prognostic values, which were consistent in ccRCC, were not as consistent across other cancer types (Supplementary Table 4). Here, YY1 is linked to cancer.