Furthermore, gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) with transcriptome datasets of primary MM samples (GSE26760 [34] and GSE19784 [35]) showed that high ALKBH5 expression was positively correlated to genes related to cell growth, anti-apoptosis signaling, cell cycle progression, cancer pathways, and genes upregulated in MM (Figs. 3K–O and S3D–M). Here, ALKBH5 is linked to cancer.