CLEC4A and cancer: In order to evaluate whether the expression of CLEC4A, encoding human DCIR, correlates with the prognosis of cancer patients, we first examined the mean expression of CLEC4A (in FPKM) vs. the results of CLEC4A-centric patients’ survival analysis in 17 prevalent human cancer types (in log-rank p-value), as previously determined using the TCGA database30.