COL11A1 missense variants, usually altering glycine or proline in Gly-X-Y repeats in the collagen α1(XI) helical domain as with COL11A1P1335L, are reported to be frequent in cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas and have been linked to transcriptional changes and tumor invasiveness (Lee et al., 2021). Here, COL11A1 is linked to cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.