Table 1. MicroRNAs are involved in the cancer-causing process .

Type of cancer	microRNA	Target gene	Role in cancer	Reference
Liver cancer	miR-503	VEGF-A and FGF2	Inhibition of angiogenesis	65
Ovarian cancer	miR-125b	HIF-1a, VEGF, HER2, HER3	Inhibition of angiogenesis	66
Bladder cancer	miR-200 family (miR-200a/200b/200c/141/429)	ZEB	EMT/MET process	67
Colorectal cancer	miR-34a	Snail, ZNF281, IL-6R	EMT process	68
Breast cancer	miR-335	SOX4, TNC	migration and invasion	69
Gastric cancer	MiR-503	Notch and IGF1R	EMT process	70
Non-small cell lung cancer	MiR-194	BMI-1	migration and invasion	70
Glioma cancer	MiR-128	E2F3a	cell growth	71

EMT, Epithelial-mesenchymal transition; MET, mesenchymal-epithelial transition.