Comment on “Diagnosis of long noncoding RNA LINC00173 in patients with melanoma is controversial”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor,We were very pleased to read the article entitled "Diagnostic and prognostic significance of long noncoding RNA LINC00173 in patients with melanoma" by Wang et al. 1 in which they revealed that LINC00173 expression could serve as an unfavorable prognostic biomarker for melanoma patients. However, some views should be raised in my opinion.The main problem of the study was that the reliability of conclusions has been questioned in a study published recently. A study found that the LINC00173 was a potential target for the diagnosis, prognosis, and/or treatment of melanoma 2 .