“…Kaplan–Meier analysis revealed that seven miRNAs (miR-148a, miR-196a, miR-1246, miR-338-3p, miR-150, miR-645 and miR-342-5p) were closely related with the prognosis of glioma patients. miR-148a has been found to be abnormally expressed in diverse malignant tumors, such as colorectal cancer ( Tsai et al, 2019 ), ovarian cancer ( Zhu et al, 2019 ), hepatocellular carcinoma ( Babu & Muckenthaler, 2019 ), breast cancer ( Lacerda et al, 2019 ), esophageal cancer ( Wang et al, 2019 ), gastric cancer ( Song et al, 2018 ), non-small cell lung cancer ( Chu et al, 2018 ) and glioma ( Cai, Zhu & Gong, 2018 ; Cui et al, 2017 ). In addition, Cai, Zhu & Gong (2018) found that miR-148a regulated STAT3 pathway activity by directly targeting CADM1 to promote glioma cell growth and metastasis.…”