High expression of ACOT1 is related to unfavorable prognosis of gastric adenocarcinoma via increased tumor-promoting protein GLI3 (Wang et al., 2018), while ACOT8 is demonstrated to be an independent predictor of lymph node metastasis and survival of lung adenocarcinoma (Jung et al., 2013). Here, ACOT1 is linked to gastric adenocarcinoma.