Intriguingly, we also detected low conservation score on two cancer related loci, tp53 and pim2. These genes are involved in the regulation of cell cycle, cell death and proliferation (Yan et al., 2003; Amir et al., 2017; Kronschnabl et al., 2020; Thomas et al., 2022), with tp53 duplications in elephants previously suggested to be important for countering cancer increase due to large size in these animals (Sulak et al., 2016). The gene discussed is PIM2; the disease is cancer.