To validate our results, we evaluated the expression levels of CYTOR in the matched pairs of CRC and normal tissue samples using the TCGA RNA-seq database (Fig. 1d), GEO GDS2947 database (Fig. 1g), GEO GSE31737 database (Fig. 1h), GEO GSE32323 database (Fig. 1i) and GEO GSE41328 database (Fig. 1j). The gene discussed is CYTOR; the disease is colorectal carcinoma.