“…Despite recent advancements in multimodal treatments (e.g., wide tumor excision, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy), survival expectancies have not improved much over the past 25 years (Kager et al, 2003), especially for patients with metastasis and recurrent osteosarcoma. Previous studies have provided some clues to the molecular pathogenesis of osteosarcoma (Bilbao-Aldaiturriaga et al, 2015;Chen et al, 2015;Sun et al, 2015a;Yuan et al, 2015;Zhao et al, 2015). However, the exact mechanisms underlying its formation and progression are still obscure and further identification of new candidate molecules participating in these processes is important for improving the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of this disease.…”