Other studies showed that ALKBH5 could promote the metastasis and invasion of gastric cancer by demethylating the expression of lncRNA NEAT1 (Zhang et al., 2019b) and that METTL14 acts as a prognostic biomarker in colorectal cancer by downregulating oncogenic lncRNA XIST (Yang et al., 2020). Here, METTL14 is linked to colorectal cancer.