LINC01546 and gastric cancer: Therefore, to understand the potential role of VAL in GC malignant progression, the expression of VAL was further examined in TCGA STAD dataset, and found that VAL was significantly upregulated in GC tissues, comparing with adjacent normal tissues, which contains 284 gastric cancer tissues and 31 normal tissues, including 28 pairs of cancer and adjacent normal tissues (Figure 1E,F).