Table 1. The studies about expression profiling of lncRNAs in RCC.

Author	Year	Country	RCC subtype	Samplesize (n)	Differentiallyexpressed lncRNAs	Numberupregulated	Numberdownregulated	References
Yu et al	2012	China	ccRCC	6	726	146	480	37
Liu et al	2016	China	not mentioned	90	3862	1649	2243	38
Deng, Blondeau et al	2015	Germany	ccRCC	15	1308	568	740	39, 40
Qin et al	2014	China	ccRCC	5	897	480	417	41
Fachel et al	2013	Brazil	ccRCC	11	40	14	26	42
He et al	2016	China	chRCC	59	143	41	102	43