These results are in agreement with our previous findings evaluating JCV in colorectal cancer (unpublished data); in addition, these observations are in line with data from other laboratories reporting the presence of JCV DNA sequences in the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, like colon cancer tissue, suggesting the possible role of polyomaviruses in development of tumor, mainly due to the presence of potent transforming genes such as large tumor antigen (T-Ag) (6, 14, 15, 26, 27). Here, LINC01194 is linked to malignant colon neoplasm.