We downloaded a total of 568 CRC and 44 normal tissues from TCGA (https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov). The data included RNA-seq profiles and clinicopathological information. We further compared the expression of CgA and SYP between normal and malignant samples. The overall survival and progression-free survival of patients expressing high and low levels of the two markers were also acquired by applying the Kaplan–Meier method (“limma,” “survival,” and “survminer” packages in R software).
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