As shown in Supplementary Fig. S2, in whole blood samples from GTEx datasets and in human tumor tissue samples (thymoma and lune adenocarcinoma) from TCGA datasets, TFG and ULK1 pair-wise gene correlation analysis confirmed that TFG expression positive correlated with ULK1 (whole blood: R = 0.73, P = 0; thymoma tissue: R = 0.62, P = 4.7e-14; lung adenocarcinoma tissue: R = 0.47, P = 0). Here, ULK1 is linked to thymoma.