HKDC1 and neoplasm: First, we analyzed HKDC1 expression in the intestinal mucosa of healthy controls (HC) and CRC patients, as well as in various tumor tissues, using transcriptomic data from the human protein atlas (HPA) (https://www.proteinatlas.org) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) (https://www.cancer.gov/ccg/research/genome‐sequencing/tcga).