Fig. 1

lncRNA CCAT1 was overexpressed in colon cancer. a. Heat map analysis of the lncRNA expression in cancerous and adjacent tissues was created using a method of hierarchical clustering by GeneSpring GX, version 7.3. Red: greatest, Green: lowest. b. We validated the differential expression of lncRNA CCAT1 in paired colon cancer and adjacent samples using RT-PCR. ^**P < 0.01 compared with the normal group. c. The expression of lncRNA CCAT1 in different colon cancer cell lines and NCM460 cells were detected by qRT-PCR. Data are presented as the mean ± SD. ^*P < 0.05, ^**P < 0.01 compared with the NCM460 group