In particular, the lncRNA MAFG-DT, which is likewise known as MAFG-AS1, was also recently shown to play oncogenic roles in multiple tumors in addition to HCC, including colorectal cancer (Cui et al., 2018), breast carcinoma (Li et al., 2019), bladder urothelial carcinoma (Xiao et al., 2020), esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (Qu and Liu, 2020), and lung adenocarcinoma (Sui et al., 2019). Here, MAFG is linked to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.