Moreover, in databases with stage-specific gene expression information, such as GSE17536 and TCGA (Supplementary Table S2), analyses revealed that the percentage of CRC samples with a high expression of LGALS1/SOX9 (LGALS1high/SOX9high) correlated with an increasing CRC stage (Figure 6C): with increasing stage, LGALS1high/SOX9high CRC samples increased from 8.3% to 35.9% and from 8.9% to 20.0% in the GSE17536 and TCGA databases, respectively. Here, SOX9 is linked to colorectal carcinoma.