MALAT1 and colonic neoplasm: MALAT1 has also been found to be overexpressed in human colon cancer cell lines including LoVo, SW620, SW1116, HCT116, SW480, HT29, and COLO205 cells compared to the normal human intestinal epithelial cells (Wu et al. 2018a; Tang et al. 2019a; Li et al. 2017a).