StarD13 inhibition of cell proliferation is also in line with a potential tumor suppressor function of this protein (Al Haddad et al., 2020; El-Sitt et al., 2012; Hanna et al., 2014a; Khalil et al., 2014; Nasrallah et al., 2014; Yang et al., 2019b, 2019a; Zhang et al., 2017). Here, STARD13 is linked to neoplasm.