Pancreatic cancer cell lines AsPC-1/M-si1 and CFPAC-1/M-si1, which stably knock down expression levels of MALAT-1, as well as that of controls (AsPC-1/M-nc and CFPAC-1/M-nc) have been established in our previously study [13]. Here, MALAT1 is linked to familial pancreatic carcinoma.