BRD7 and cancer: Consequently, BRD7 plays crucial roles in many aspects of cellular processes, such as cell proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation, and glucose metabolism (Zhou et al., 2004; Park S. W. et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2017; Liu et al., 2019); and its abnormal expression is broadly associated with the development of many diseases (Xu Y. et al., 2015; Wang H. et al., 2016; Zhao et al., 2017; Wei et al., 2018), including cancers.