As a first step, we initially examined the RNA‐seq data in the TCGA melanoma cohort (n = 473) for correlation between MITF mRNA expression and that of the Verfaillie et al. (2015) proliferative and invasive gene expression signatures that we chose so as to enable comparisons to be made with our previous publications (Falletta et al., 2017; Louphrasitthiphol et al., 2019; Vivas‐Garcia et al., 2020). This evidence concerns the gene MITF and melanoma.