DMC1 and cancer: Similarly to other genes involved in meiotic recombination, DMC1 was found to be ectopically expressed in various cancer cell lines including cervical (Erenpreisa et al., 2009), colon (Ianzini et al., 2009), breast (Salmina et al., 2019), glioblastoma (Rivera et al., 2015) and lymphoma cancer cell lines (Kalejs et al., 2006) as well as in CTCL biopsy samples (Gantchev et al., 2020).