However, Zhao et al. investigated the growth of gastric cancer tissue by knocking down or not knocking down PHF14, and found that PHF14 contributed to the proliferation and migration of gastric cancer cells through the AKT and ERK1/2 pathways (Soliman and Riabowol, 2007; Pan et al., 2022). The gene discussed is AKT1; the disease is gastric cancer.