High activity of ALDH correlates with tumor grade, metastasis, and poor prognosis in patient breast tumor (Charafe-Jauffret et al., 2010; Marcato et al., 2011); consequently, low expression levels of CLOCK in ALDH-positive 4T1 cells likely promote their malignant properties by regulating ALDH activity. The gene discussed is CLOCK; the disease is breast neoplasm.