After a PubMed search, we found that only a few pieces of literature reported the role of GHR (Yan et al., 2021; Meng et al., 2022) and PIM1 (Yan et al., 2012; Kim et al., 2020) in GC, whereas there is no relevant report of IFNA8 and IFNB1 in GC at present. This evidence concerns the gene IFNA8 and gastric cancer.