Key insights include the diagnostic weight of pathognomonic cutaneous lesions with nailfold microangiopathy; the utility of myositis-specific autoantibodies for endotyping and risk (e.g., anti-TIF1-γ/anti-NXP2 and cancer, anti-MDA5 and rapidly progressive ILD); and the value of myxovirus-resistance protein A (MxA) immunohistochemistry and muscle MRI patterning (including distinctions from immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy) when enzymes are normal, or biopsies are treatment-modified. This evidence concerns the gene MORC3 and cancer.