Mechanistic studies on MALAT1 have been performed in the context of lung, breast, cervix, and esophageal cancers, where MALAT1 expression is often dysregulated (Chou et al., 2016; Gong et al., 2016; Li et al., 2017a; Westphalen et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2018). The gene discussed is MALAT1; the disease is esophageal cancer.