KDM5A is overexpressed in several cancers including acute myeloid leukemia and lung cancers (Oser et al., 2019; Shokri et al., 2018), KDM5B in breast cancer and melanoma (Roesch et al., 2008; Yamane et al., 2007), and KDM5C in prostate cancers (Stein et al., 2014), as well as metastatic breast and gastric cancers (Xu et al., 2017). Here, KDM5A is linked to cancer.