Low MCPH1/BRIT1 expression in cervical squamous cell carcinoma, oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma, head-neck squamous cell carcinoma, renal clear cell carcinoma, rectal adenocarcinoma, stomach adenocarcinoma, thymoma and uterine corpus endometroid cancer predicted reduced OS. Here, MCPH1 is linked to cervical squamous cell carcinoma.