To understand the disease association of THAP9 and THAP9-AS1 in more detail, we next studied the prevalence of their genetic alterations across various human cancers, using the cBioPortal tool [34] in the “pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes (ICGC/TCGA, Nature 2020)” dataset available at http://www.cbioportal.org accessed on 3 October 2021. Here, THAP9 is linked to cancer.