It has been demonstrated that two variants of TINCR (rs2288947 and rs8105637) are significantly correlated with the susceptibility and lymph node metastasis of colorectal cancer (Zheng et al., 2017); the lincRNA TINCR rs2288947 G allele and rs8113645 A allele genotypes could reduce the risk of gastric cancer. The gene discussed is TINCR; the disease is metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes.