Table 3. Cancer associations for MicroRNAs used in this study.

MicroRNA	Cancer Association	Validated Target	Reference
Mir-21	Cervical	PDCD4	[14]
	Colon	PDCD4	[31]
	Prostate	MARCKS	[50]
	Stomach	PTEN	[51]
	Breast	PDCD4, TPM1	[26], [32]
	Liver	PTEN	[24]
	Lung, pancreas	–	[17], [29], [44]
Mir-143	Breast	ERK5	[30]
	B-cell tumors	ERK5	[52]
	Cervical, prostate, colon	–	[17], [29], [53], [54]