RNA-association CLIP (crosslinking and immunoprecipitation) studies of IGF2BP1 in HEK293, embryonic stem cells and cancer cells suggested a variety of candidate target mRNAs of IGF2BP1, preferred 3’UTR binding and proposed short binding motifs of the protein (Hafner et al., 2010; Conway et al., 2016; Van Nostrand et al., 2016; Huang H. et al., 2018). Here, IGF2BP1 is linked to cancer.