Mortalin overexpression was reported in numerous cancerous tissues and tumor-derived cell lines providing ample evidence of its fundamental association with malignancy (Wadhwa et al., 1995; Dundas et al., 2005; Wadhwa et al., 2006; Chen et al., 2014; Jin et al., 2016; Jubran et al., 2017; Sun et al., 2017; Xu et al., 2019). The gene discussed is HSPA9; the disease is neoplasm.