In recent years, several studies have revealed an association between PHF14 expression and decreased overall survival in STAD, BLCA, LUAD, GBM and LGG, while PHF14 overexpression suppressed the growth of tumor cells in CHOL and COAD (Ivanov et al., 2007; Akazawa et al., 2013; Pu et al., 2018; Wu et al., 2019; Zhao et al., 2020). Here, PHF14 is linked to gastric adenocarcinoma.