In gastric cancer (GC), signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 acute-phase response factor (STAT3) induced lncRNA HAGLROS overexpression inhibits autophagy by mTOR signal-mediated inhibition, thus contributing to the malignant proliferation and invasion of GC cells and consequently predicting poorer outcomes in GC patients (Chen et al., 2018). The gene discussed is MTOR; the disease is gastric cancer.