In the field of gastric carcinoma (GC), which is developed eventually from atrophic gastritis (AG), ATG3, ATG4B, ATG4C, ATG5, ATG7, ATG10, ATG12, ATG16L1, and TECPR1 mRNA levels were associated with the overall survival of GC [8]. Here, ATG7 is linked to chronic atrophic gastritis.