CSMD1 and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: Table 1 shows the three alterations of CSMD1 (DNA alterations and expression as fold changes for both mRNA and target miRs) in the 56 ESCCs. Finally, we examined the relations among the three alterations (Figure 4a–c and Figure 5a,b), which suggested that SNPs with somatic alterations from non-coding regions could influence expression of CSMD1 RNA and its target miRs. Moreover, we showed associations between expressions of CSMD1 and target miRNAs and survival in ESCC (Figure 6).