NEAT1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Furthermore, Ling et al. evaluated the expression level and clinical relevance of lncRNA-NEAT1 in HCC based on data from TCGA-LIHC and other HCC datasets from the Oncomine database, and found that lncRNA-NEAT1 is consistently up-regulated in HCC tumor tissues, though in the TCGA-LIHC dataset, lncRNA-NEAT1 was not significantly associated with overall patient survival but was significantly correlated to distant metastasis.