Consistent with our results, Previous reports have shown that AC133540.1, AL137782.1, AP001619.1, AC013652.1, AC008760.1, ALMS1-IT1, AC012313.5, FGF14-AS2, AP006621.2, LINC00702, LINC02550 and AC083900.1 are associated with poor prognosis in CRC patients (Huang and Pan, 2019; Hou et al., 2020; Yu et al., 2020; Xu et al., 2021a; Li et al., 2021; Li et al., 2022), whereas AC007991.4, LINC02381, AL031985.3 and AC099850.4 were reported in the other cancer patients with poor prognosis (Jafarzadeh and Soltani, 2020; Zhang et al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2020; Wu et al., 2021). Here, ALMS1 is linked to cancer.