Studies have suggested a cooperativity between YAP1 and β-catenin in cancer cell survival via up-regulation of antiapoptotic markers such as BIRC5 and the Bcl2 family of proteins (Konsavage et al, 2012; Rosenbluh et al, 2012; Bernascone & Martin-Belmonte, 2013; Krausova & Korinek, 2014; Yang et al, 2017; Sanchez-Vega et al, 2018). Here, YAP1 is linked to cancer.