“…After identifying the prognostic lncRNAs differentially expressed in normal and KIRC tissues, we comprehensively employed the univariate and LASSO COX regression analysis to determine four lncRNAs (LINC01605, AGAP2-AS1, FOXD2-AS1, and LINC02195) and construct the prognostic signature (CRGscore) associated with the OS. LINC01605 has been demonstrated in triple negative breast cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, colorectal cancer, and other cancers to promote tumor proliferation and invasion through multiple pathways ( Hu et al, 2021b ; Wang et al, 2022a ; Zhao et al, 2022 ). AGAP2-AS1 was confirmed to be a prognostic marker of KIRC through the TCGA-KIRC cohort and a self-collected independent cohort ( Gao et al, 2020 ; Nakken et al, 2021 ).…”