LINC-PINT and familial pancreatic carcinoma: For example, LINC-PINT was found to be downregulated in PDAC, and low plasma LINC-PINT expression might serve as a biomarker for early pancreatic cancer detection, whereas low levels of LINC-PINT in tumour tissues correlated with a poor prognosis after pancreatectomy [119,120].