It has been reported that the viral proteins pul130, ul70, ul105, and UL142 interact with the host protein snapin and affect viral DNA replication in human cytomegalovirus infection (Shen et al., 2011; Luo et al., 2013; Liu et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2016). The gene discussed is SNAPIN; the disease is cytomegalovirus infection.