“…A previous experimental study indicated that MiRNA has a key influence on tumor biology and is related to the progression and prognosis of cancer, and that the high expression of miR-499A>G in serum was significantly associated with a longer survival of non-small cell lung cancer (Hu et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2011). Common single nucleotide polymorphisms in premiRNA, rs3746444 in miR-499A>G and rs2910164 in miR-146aG>C, have been studied in various cancers, such as breast cancer, gastric cancer, cervical squamous cell cancer and colorectal cancer (Catucci et al, 2010;Okubo et al, 2010;Gao et al, 2011;Zhou et al, 2011;Srivastava and Srivastava, 2012;Wang et al, 2012). However, the results of these studies were inconsistent.…”