Subsequent Western blotting analysis confirmed that the protein expression levels of MEP1A were also higher in CRC specimens than were found in the matched adjacent non-tumor tissues (i.e., 1.04 ± 0.05 vs. 0.47 ± 0.03 at P < 0.001, Student’s t-test; Fig. 1c-d). Here, MEP1A is linked to neoplasm.