ZBTB9 and cancer: Herein, we primarily found that ZBTB9 was significantly upregulated in 15 types of tumors compared to corresponding normal tissues with TIMER2 pan-cancer data, including BLCA, BRCA, CHOL, COAD, ESCA, GBM, HNSC, HNSC-HPV (−), LIHC, LUAD, LUSC, PRAD, READ, STAD and UCEC (all P < 0.05) (Fig. 1A), and the specific information of these cancer types were described in Table 1.