Table 1.

miRNA involved in overall organs/body growth regulation

miRNA	Species	Proposed effect on growth	Molecular target(s)	Reference
miR-8/ miR200	Drosophila	Promotes growth by increasing PI3K activation	USH/FOG2	(Hyun et al. 2009)
miR-200	Zebrafish	Suppresses growth by targeting GH-IGF-I signaling	GH, GHR, IGF2a	(Jing et al. 2015)
miR-9a	Drosophila	Suppresses growth by targeting insulin signaling	sNPFR1/NPY2R	(Suh et al. 2015)
miR-1/ miR-133	Mouse	Suppresses cardiac hypertrophy	RohA, Cdc42, Nelf-A/WHSC2	(Care et al. 2007)
let-7	Mouse	Suppresses growth by regulating glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity	Myc, Kras, Igf2bp1, Hmga2	(Zhu et al. 2010) (Frost & Olson 2011)
miR-29	Mouse	Suppresses organs growth by targeting a genetic program	Igf1, Mest, Igfbp1	(Kamran et al. 2015)