Recent work has suggested that overexpression of the YWHAG protein in uterine leiomyoma cells has been reported to cause growth retardation and induce apoptosis (Shen et al., 2018), and miR-217 promotes the spread and invasion of glioblastoma by inhibiting YWHAG (Wang et al., 2017). Here, YWHAG is linked to leiomyoma.