Indeed, several studies have shown that StarD13 is under expressed in many types of tumors, and that the overexpression of StarD3 inhibits cancer cell growth and proliferation (Al Haddad et al., 2020; Ching et al., 2003; El-Sitt et al., 2012; Gao et al., 2018; Yang et al., 2019a). This evidence concerns the gene STARD13 and cancer.