EMC2 and pancreatic neoplasm: FTL, on the other hand, displayed significant positive correlations with ALOX15 (r = 0.893; p = 0.0005), FDFT1 (r = 0.761; p = 0.0106), RPL8 (r = 0.689; p = 0.0274), and TP53 (r = 0.893; p = 0.0005) in the control group, whereas it was strongly negatively correlated with ALOX15 (G1; r = − 0.747; p = 0.131), CBS (G3; r = − 0.689; p = 0.0092), FDFT1 (G3; r = − 0.595; p = 0.0321), TP53 (G1; r = − 0.738; p = 0.0148) and TTC35 (G2; r = − 0.381; p = 0.0457) in pancreatic tumor tissues (Table 2).