CGAS and cancer: Although not much is currently known regarding the specific functions of most of these lncRNAs, MAP3K20-AS1, STARD4-AS1 and PCAT1 are high-risk factors for different cancers (Levick and Knight, 1987; Mo et al., 2017; Ghafouri-Fard et al., 2020) and PCAT1 also is known to activate SOX2 as well as affect cGAS/STING signaling (Gao et al., 2022).