Table 1.

NcRNAs specifically targeted by somatic genomic alterations in cancer.

Name	Class	Locus	Somatic alteration	Function	Cancer type	Reference
mir-15a/mir-16-1	microRNA cluster	13q14	Deletion	Tumor suppressive	CLL	Calin et al. (2002)
mir-17-92	microRNA cluster	13q31	Amplification	Oncogenic	Lymphoma	Ota et al. (2004)
LOC285194 and BC040587	lncRNA	3q13	Deletion	Tumor suppressive	Osteosarcoma	Pasic et al. (2010)
NC25	lncRNA	6q13	Mutation	Tumor suppressive	Endometrial	Perez et al. (2008)
GAS5	lncRNA/snoRNA	11q25	Gene fusion	Unknown	B-cell lymphoma	Nakamura et al. (2008)
PTENP1	Pseudogene/lncRNA	9p13	Deletion	Tumor suppressive	Colon	Poliseno et al. (2010)
SNORA42	snoRNA	1q22	Amplification	Oncogenic	Lung	Mei et al. (2012)
U50	snoRNA	6q14	Mutation	Tumor suppressive	Prostate, breast	Dong et al. (2008, 2009)