STOML2 and colorectal carcinoma: To further validate protein that most possibly interacts with STOML2, we performed GSEA of STOML2 and 13 candidates, using CRC sample expression profiling datasets GSE14333 (n = 290) [32] and GSE17538 (n = 238) [33–36] on GEO database (Supplementary Fig.3, 4, 5, 6).