Eighteen of these have been reported as cancer driver genes (ARID1A, ARID2, CDK12, CHEK2, GNAS, H3F3A, KDM6A, KMT2C, NOTCH1, RB1, RBM10, RYNX1, SETD2, SF3B1, SMARCA4, THRAP3, TP53 and ZMYM2) (Additional file 1: Table S6) [20]. Here, CDK12 is linked to cancer.