As in silico analysis of a HGU133 Plus2.0 microarray data set (GSE15960 [29]) containing expression data from laser capture microdissected (LCM) colonic epithelial and stromal cells from normal, adenoma and CRC tissues resulted in siginificant overexpression of LINC00152 in both cell types in CRC (Supplementary Fig. 1C), for deeper insight, we aimed to explore the in situ expression and localization of LINC00152 in the colorectal normal-adenoma-CRC sequence using ISH on TMA slides (containing tissue cores from 5 normal, 29 adenoma and 20 CRC tissue samples). Here, CYTOR is linked to adenoma.