Similar observations were made for lncRNAs DANCR, ATB, lincRNA-ROR, SNHG20 and GAS5 all of which have also been shown to correlate with poor prognosis of colorectal cancers (Yin et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2015; Li et al., 2016b; Yue et al., 2016; Zhou et al., 2016) but we did not find them to be expressed at significantly different levels in metastases compared to the adjacent normal tissue. The gene discussed is DANCR; the disease is colorectal cancer.