CDKN2B-AS1 and renal cell carcinoma: There is CDKN2B-AS1, known also as ANRIL, is up-regulated in RCC tissue which corresponds with our results (Angenard et al. 2019; Dasgupta et al. 2020; Xie et al. 2021) and there are even some single nucleotide polymorphisms identified which are typically associated with RCC (Li et al. 2014).