Interestingly, positively correlated loci represented cancer driver genes (MYC, PRKCD, RB1, CDK6), molecules involved in immune response (MALT1, PIK3CG), as well as cellular and hormonal signaling (HGF, PTPN13, IGF1, SMAD1, ESR1, CTGF). Here, MALT1 is linked to cancer.