Liao et al. (2013). reported that silencing the expression of DLGAP5 suppressed cell growth significantly and colony formation in hepatocellular carcinoma cells in vitro. Zhang et al. also reported that knockdown of DLGAP5 suppressed cell proliferation, induced G2/M phase arrest and apoptosis in ovarian cancer (Zhang et al., 2021). Here, DLGAP5 is linked to ovarian cancer.