SLC17A9 is thought to be a disease‐related gene associated with disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis, a rare autosomal dominant genodermatosis (Cui et al., 2014), gastric carcinoma (Li et al., 2019) and colorectal cancer (Yang et al., 2019). The gene discussed is SLC17A9; the disease is colorectal cancer.