In another study, Hu and colleagues [149] found that Linc00152, CASP8- and FADD-like apoptosis regulator-antisense 1 (CFLAR-AS1), and POU3F3 were significantly upregulated in a large cohort of 205 ESCC patients and 82 esophagus dysplasia patients compared to 210 healthy controls, with an AUC of 0.698, 0.651, and 0.584, respectively. Here, CFLAR is linked to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.