In contrast, METTL14 (Gu et al., 2019; Guimarães Teixeira et al., 2022), WTAP (Liu et al., 2021a), YTHDC1, YTHDF3, ZC3H13 (Deng et al., 2022) were reduced in bladder cancer samples. The gene discussed is YTHDC1; the disease is urinary bladder cancer.