MALAT1 and osteosarcoma: Furthermore, three studies reported the diagnostic power of circulating HNF1A-AS1 (Cai 2017 [73]), FAL1 (Wang 2017 [72]) and MALAT1 (Huo 2017 [77]) lncRNAs to be more effective than alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in distinguishing osteosarcoma from healthy individuals.