A traditional Chinese medicine Yin‐xing‐tong‐mai decoction (YXTMD) has been used to treat atherosclerosis by activating the PPARγ‐LXRα‐ABCA1/ABCG1 pathway to enhance cholesterol efflux (Zheng et al., 2021). This evidence concerns the gene ABCG1 and atherosclerosis.