MT1G is a DNA methylation-related gene which is reported to play an important role in various types of cancer (Henrique et al., 2005; Roth et al., 2006; Sakamoto et al., 2010; Arriaga et al., 2012; Fu et al., 2013; Zeng et al., 2018). The gene discussed is ENSG00000280371; the disease is cancer.