ASPA and colonic neoplasm: Uddin MN et al. identified numerous significantly upregulated genes, such as CTHRC1, NFE2L3, SULF1, SOX9, ENC1, and CCND1, and significantly downregulated genes, such as MYOT, ASPA, NEXMIF, ARHGEF37, BCL2, and PPARGC1A, in colon tumor stroma versus colon normal stroma [40].