ALKBH5 and colorectal cancer: 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).