PDHA1 and cancer: Decreased expression of PDHA1 was found to be an unfavorable prognostic factor in various types of cancer including ovarian (Li et al., 2016b), gastric (Liu et al., 2018), prostate (Zhong et al., 2017), lung (Cao et al., 2017), liver (Sun et al., 2019), and esophageal cancer (Zhong et al., 2015).