C9orf50 and cancer: Figure 2 shows the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for THBD and C9orf50 in the discrimination of CRC tumor samples versus normal colonic tissue. The AUCs for THBD and C9orf50 were 0.97, and 1.0, respectively. Importantly, both markers revealed lower DNA methylation levels in all other cancer types including breast, lung, prostate, thyroid, uterine, kidney, ovarian, gastric, pancreatic and bladder cancers, as well as melanoma, acute myeloid leukemia, glioblastoma multiforme and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (Figure 3).