Moreover, exosomal FOXD2-AS1 and NRIR and XLOC_009459 expression seemed irrelated with clinicopathological characteristics of 80 early-stage CRC patients including age, gender, drinking status, history of diabetes mellitus, tumor position, histological type, lymph node metastasis status, and TNM stage as shown in Table 3. Here, FOXD2 is linked to diabetes mellitus.