XIST and cancer: XIST, MALAT1, NEAT1, and LINC00240 up-regulated lncRNA were predicted to bind to hsa-mir-124-3p and promoted the proliferation and metastasis of other cancers by modulating hsa-mir-124-3p, but there are no related studies in CCRCC (Feng et al., 2016; Liu et al., 2018a; Xiao et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2020b).