Accumulating evidence demonstrated that MNX1-AS1 played an oncogenic role in multiple malignancies including gastric cancer [13], esophageal squamous cell carcinoma [14], osteosarcoma [15], non-small cell lung cancer [16], hepatocellular carcinoma [17], prostate cancer [18], breast cancer [19] and cervical cancer [20] and so on. Here, MNX1 is linked to gastric cancer.