Recently, Li et al (2015) have investigated the expression of NEAT1 (ranked 5th in the prediction results) in 239 clinical cases of colon cancer specimens and matched normal tissues and demonstrated that NEAT1 may play an oncogenic role in colon cancer differentiation, invasion and metastasis and serve as an important biomarker of colon cancer recurrence and prognosis [70]. Here, NEAT1 is linked to colonic neoplasm.