To further assess whether DANCR was dysregulated in CRC, we performed real-time PCR to analyze the expression of DANCR in 15 CRC tissues and found that the level of DANCR was significantly increased in the CRC tissue, as compared with the matched adjacent normal tissue (U = 63.0, P=0.0421) (Figure 1C). This evidence concerns the gene DANCR and colorectal carcinoma.