By overlapping the differentially expressed lncRNAs from the GENCODE database and NSCLC-related microarray, which contented 42 paired NSCLC and normal lung tissues, Zhu and his colleagues found that lncRNA MNX1-AS1 was upregulated and associated with advanced tumor stage (Zhu et al., 2022). This evidence concerns the gene MNX1 and non-small cell lung carcinoma.