The regulators YTHDF1, YTHDF3 and KIAA1429 were found to be upregulated in breast cancer, and were associated with the metastasis of lymph nodes, breast cancer progression, and also were predictors of poor prognosis (Liu et al., 2019; Anita et al., 2020; He et al., 2021). The gene discussed is YTHDF3; the disease is breast carcinoma.