In recent years, studies have suggested that the elevated expression of CHAF1A is closely correlated with the development of some types of cancer, such as neuroblastoma, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, and gastric cancer (Barbieri et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2017; Xia et al., 2017; Zheng et al., 2018). The gene discussed is CHAF1A; the disease is cancer.