Table 1.

LncRNAs are screened out from three GEO datasets

LncRNA	GEO dataset	Adenocarcinoma					Squamous cell carcinoma
		AUC	95% CI	p-value	Se (%)	Sp (%)	AUC	95% CI	p-value	Se (%)	Sp (%)
MAGI2-AS3	GSE19188	0.921	0.863–0.980	<0.0001	82.2	98.5	0.985	0.967–1.003	<0.0001	100	87.7
	GSE30219	0.945	0.895–0.994	<0.0001	88.2	92.7	0.986	0.963–1.008	<0.0001	98.4	92.9
	GSE27262	0.972	0.947–1.012	<0.0001	100	92	−	−	−	−	−
LOC100507632	GSE19188	0.950	0.895–1.005	<0.0001	100	84.4	0.992	0.979–1.004	<0.0001	90.8	100
	GSE30219	0.968	0.926–1.010	<0.0001	92.9	91.8	0.993	0.980–1.006	<0.0001	100	93.4
	GSE27262	1.000	1.000–1.000	<0.0001	100	100	−	−	−	−	−
FOXF1-AS1	GSE19188	0.928	0.864–0.992	<0.0001	93.9	91.1	0.989	0.972–1.005	<0.0001	93.9	100
	GSE30219	0.945	0.876–1.015	<0.0001	85.7	96.5	0.972	0.936–1.008	<0.0001	85.7	98.4
	GSE27262	1.000	1.000–1.000	<0.0001	100	100	−	−	−	−	−
LOC100499467	GSE19188	0.887	0.809–0.9645	<0.0001	96.9	82.2	0.995	0.987–1.003	<0.0001	96.9	100
	GSE30219	0.857	0.740–0.9745	<0.0001	71.4	91.7	0.968	0.927–1.010	<0.0001	85.7	96.7
	GSE27262	0.992	0.977–1.007	<0.0001	96	96			−
ZFAS1	GSE19188	0.665	0.560–0.771	0.0033	64.4	64.6	0.660	0.527–0.793	0.016	63	69.2
	GSE30219	0.668	0.540–0.797	0.0436	61.2	78.6	0.609	0.479–0.739	0.0497	57.4	78.6
	GSE27262	0.781	0.644–0.9174	0.0007	92	68	−	−	−	−	−

Abbreviations: AUC, area under the ROC curve; GEO, gene expression omnibus; Se, sensitivity; Sp, specificity.