MAL (LUAD, THYM, and UCEC), MAL2 (BRCA, PAAD, and UCEC), and PLLP (KICH, KIRC, and UCEC) present strong correlations (p ≤ 0.001) in three types of cancer, and MALL (KIRC and PAAD), CMTM8 (KIRC and KIRP), and MYADM (LUSC and THYM) do so in two cancer types. Here, MAL is linked to cancer.