Interestingly, one of them was MALAT1 (Fig. 2A, B), which appeared paradoxical because MALAT1 is known to be highly expressed in liver cancer25, in line with our own bioinformatics analysis using The Atlas of non-coding RNA in Cancer (TANRIC; https://ibl.mdanderson.org/tanric/design/basic/main.html)26 (Supplementary Fig. S3). The gene discussed is MALAT1; the disease is cancer.