TMB and predicted neoantigen load were significantly correlated with cytolytic activity estimated by the expression of key immune effector molecules, GZMA and perforin 1 (PRF1), that are highly expressed in activated cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in large-scale WES and transcriptome data sets across 18 cancer types and were also significantly associated with better patient prognosis in 515 patients across 6 cancer types in The Cancer Genome Atlas39,40. Here, GZMA is linked to cancer.