More importantly, we found that VAL was significantly upregulated in LAD tissues as compared with the normal tissue specimens collected in the TCGA LAD datasets, which include 38 pairs of lung cancer/normal tissues and 495 cases of lung cancer vs 46 cases of unpaired normal lung tissue, as well as in a panel of LAD cell lines as compared to an immortalized normal lung epithelial cell line Beas2B (Fig. 1k, l and Supplementary Fig. 2g). Here, LINC01546 is linked to lung cancer.