In contrast with its tumor suppressor function however, we have demonstrated that StarD13 positively regulates cell migration of different cancer types including astrocytoma, breast, lung, and colorectal cancer (Al Haddad et al., 2020; Hanna et al., 2014a; Khalil et al., 2014; Nasrallah et al., 2014). The gene discussed is STARD13; the disease is astrocytoma (excluding glioblastoma).