GAS5 and colorectal carcinoma: We used 5′-and 3′-RACE analyses to identify a 656-bp full-length transcript of GAS5 in CRC cells (Additional file 1: Figure S2) and analyzed the expressions of selected lncRNAs and YAP in eight CRC cell lines by qRT-PCR (Fig. 1d-e; Additional file 1: Figure S1).