To identify the target genes, PARCLIP, RIP, and mRNA lifetime data of YTHDF2 knockdown in HeLa cells were downloaded from the GEO database and analyzed, as shown in Fig. 7A. The gene set was obtained by overlapping the PARCLIP and RIP data with the genes with prolonged RNA half-life in HeLa cells after silencing YTHDF2, and finally overlapping with the genes negatively correlated with the expression of YTHDF2 in the cervical cancer expression data in the TCGA database [11]. The gene discussed is YTHDF2; the disease is cervical cancer.