MALAT1 and liver cancer: The lncRNAs of interest for this test—namely ANRIL, H19, HOTAIR, HULC, MALAT1, WISPER, and ZFAS1—were initially identified in other pathologies, as evident in some of their names, highly upregulated in liver cancer (HULC) (32), or metastasis associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) (27).