Blank spaces in the “Biological functions” column indicate that biological functions of the miRNAs have not been reported.
| Cancer types (down-regulation/overexpression) | miRNA names | Biological functions |
| Lung (down-regulation) | miR-3127-3p* | |
| miR-3130-5p* | ||
| miR-3131* | ||
| miR-3141* | ||
| miR-3150b-5p* | ||
| miR-3151-3p* | ||
| miR-3151-5p* | ||
| miR-3154* | ||
| miR-3160-3p* | ||
| miR-3160-5p* | ||
| miR-378a-5p | Suppressing cell proliferation and inducing apoptosis (52) | |
| miR-520c-3p | Tumor suppressor (53–57) | |
| miR-526b-3p | Tumor suppressor (58) | |
| miR-3150a-3p | ||
| miR-3162-5p | ||
| miR-4254 | ||
| Lung (overexpression) | miR-3117-5p* | |
| miR-3118* | ||
| miR-3121-3p* | ||
| miR-3121-5p* | ||
| miR-3126-5p* | ||
| miR-3128* | ||
| miR-3133* | ||
| miR-3134* | ||
| miR-3136-3p* | ||
| miR-3136-5p* | ||
| miR-3139* | ||
| miR-3142* | ||
| miR-3143* | ||
| miR-3145-3p* | ||
| miR-3163* | Inhibiting non–small cell lung cancer cell growth (59) | |
| miR-3166* | ||
| miR-3167* | ||
| miR-16-1-3p | Repressing gastric cancer cell invasion and metastasis (60) | |
| miR-424-3p | Potential metastasis-related miRNAs (61) | |
| miR-519c-5p | ||
| miR-525-5p | ||
| miR-551b-5p | ||
| miR-558 | Promoting tumorigenesis (62) | |
| miR-921 | ||
| miR-942-3p | ||
| miR-3126-3p | ||
| miR-3127-5p | Reducing non–small cell lung cancer cell proliferation (63) | |
| miR-3129-5p | ||
| miR-3144-5p | ||
| miR-3150a-5p | ||
| miR-3152-5p | ||
| miR-3155a | ||
| miR-3157-3p | ||
| miR-3159 | ||
| miR-3165 | ||
| miR-3678-3p | ||
| miR-4321 | ||
| miR-4521 | Significantly up-regulated miRNA in cancer stem cells (64) | |
| miR-4800-3p | ||
| miR-4999-5p | ||
| miR-5096 | ||
| miR-5187-5p | ||
| miR-6874-5p | ||
| Pancreatic (down-regulation) | miR-372-3p* | Tumor suppressor (65) |
| miR-378b* | ||
| miR-520b* | Inhibiting cellular migration and invasion (66) | |
| miR-1266-3p* | ||
| miR-3605-5p* | ||
| miR-3612* | ||
| miR-4645-3p* | ||
| miR-4694-3p* | ||
| miR-4752* | ||
| miR-6816-3p* | ||
| miR-8087* | ||
| let-7f-2-3p | ||
| miR-15a-3p | Inducing apoptosis in human cancer cell lines (67) | |
| miR-20a-3p | ||
| miR-33b-3p | ||
| miR-34c-5p | Tumor suppressor (68) | |
| miR-93-5p | ||
| miR-130a-5p | ||
| miR-135a-5p | Inhibiting tumor metastasis (69) | |
| miR-135b-5p | ||
| miR-185-5p | Tumor suppressor (70) | |
| miR-203a-3p | ||
| miR-302d-5p | ||
| miR-337-3p | Tumor suppressor (71) | |
| miR-378c | ||
| miR-422a | Down-regulated in colon cancer (72) | |
| miR-449c-5p | ||
| miR-483-5p | ||
| miR-506-3p | Inducing differentiation (73) | |
| miR-511-5p | ||
| miR-520c-3p | Tumor suppressor (53–57) | |
| miR-654-3p | ||
| miR-668-5p | ||
| miR-670-5p | ||
| miR-671-3p | ||
| miR-744-3p | ||
| miR-1178-3p | ||
| miR-1254 | ||
| miR-1284 | Down-regulated in lymph node metastatic sites (74) | |
| miR-1323 | Modulating radioresistance (75) | |
| miR-2116-5p | ||
| miR-2355-3p | ||
| miR-3132 | ||
| miR-3138 | ||
| miR-3164 | ||
| miR-3186-3p | ||
| miR-3189-3p | ||
| miR-3198 | ||
| miR-3200-5p | ||
| miR-3657 | ||
| miR-3667-5p | ||
| miR-3680-5p | ||
| miR-3692-5p | ||
| miR-3713 | ||
| miR-3921 | ||
| miR-3936 | ||
| miR-4273 | Increasing colorectal cancer risk (76) | |
| miR-4299 | ||
| miR-4306 | ||
| miR-4316 | ||
| miR-4319 | ||
| miR-4421 | ||
| miR-4429 | ||
| miR-4435 | ||
| miR-4441 | ||
| miR-4473 | ||
| miR-4506 | ||
| miR-4633-5p | ||
| miR-4658 | ||
| miR-4733-5p | ||
| miR-4733-3p | ||
| miR-5004-3p | ||
| miR-5194 | ||
| miR-5197-5p | ||
| miR-5571-5p | ||
| miR-6083 | ||
| miR-6717-5p | ||
| miR-6720-5p | ||
| miR-6767-3p | ||
| miR-6781-3p | ||
| miR-6811-3p | ||
| miR-6821-3p | ||
| miR-6828-5p | ||
| miR-6832-5p | ||
| miR-6837-3p | ||
| miR-6841-5p | ||
| miR-6853-5p | ||
| miR-6871-3p | ||
| miR-6875-5p | ||
| miR-6878-5p | ||
| miR-7112-3p | ||
| miR-7703 | ||
| miR-7848-3p | ||
| miR-7856-5p | ||
| Pancreatic (overexpression) | let-7i-3p | |
| miR-183-5p | Promoting cancer proliferation, invasion, and metastasis (77) | |
| miR-202-5p | Increasing TGFBR1 and TGFBR2 protein expressions (78) | |
| miR-409-5p | Promoting tumorigenesis (79) | |
| miR-4661-5p | ||
| miR-4800-3p | ||
| miR-5587-5p | ||
| Liver (down-regulation) | let-7i-2-3p | |
| miR-520c-3p | Tumor suppressor (53–57) | |
| Liver (overexpression) | miR-4521* | |
| let-7c-3p | ||
| let-7i-5p | ||
| miR-16-1-3p | Repressing gastric cancer cell invasion and metastasis (60) | |
| miR-26a-1-3p | ||
| miR-28-5p | Suppressing insulin-like growth factor 1 expression (80) | |
| miR-105-5p | ||
| miR-195-3p | ||
| miR-200b-5p | ||
| miR-219a-2-3p | ||
| miR-297 | Promoting cell proliferation and invasion (81) | |
| miR-300 | Inhibiting pituitary tumor transforming gene expression (82) | |
| miR-330-3p | Promoting invasion and metastasis (83) | |
| miR-374b-5p | ||
| miR-431-5p | ||
| miR-454-5p | Promoting tumorigenesis (84) | |
| miR-513c-5p | ||
| miR-548ax | ||
| miR-593-5p | ||
| miR-623 | ||
| miR-664a-5p | ||
| miR-942-3p | ||
| miR-1205 | ||
| miR-1276 | ||
| miR-1288-3p | ||
| miR-1297 | Promoting cell proliferation (85) | |
| miR-3678-3p | ||
| miR-4283 | ||
| miR-4295 | Promoting cell proliferation and invasion (86) | |
| miR-4439 | ||
| miR-4524b-5p | ||
| miR-4703-3p | ||
| miR-4768-5p | ||
| miR-4800-3p | ||
| miR-5187-5p | ||
| miR-5696 | ||
| miR-7161-5p | ||
| Bladder (down-regulation) | let-7f-2-3p | |
| miR-520c-3p | Tumor suppressor (53–57) | |
| miR-4783-5p | ||
| Bladder (overexpression) | miR-16-1-3p | Repressing gastric cancer cell invasion and metastasis (60) |
| miR-23b-3p | Regulating chemoresistance of gastric cancer cell (87) | |
| miR-28-5p | Suppressing insulin-like growth factor 1 expression (80) | |
| miR-92a-2-5p | ||
| miR-142-3p | Promoting malignant phenotypes (88) | |
| miR-195-3p | Promoting tumorigenesis and inhibiting apoptosis (89) | |
| miR-196b-5p | ||
| miR-299-3p | Reducing Oct4 gene expression (90) | |
| miR-492 | ||
| miR-513b-5p | ||
| miR-601 | ||
| miR-619-5p | ||
| miR-1285-3p | ||
| miR-3155a | ||
| miR-3162-5p | ||
| miR-3678-3p | ||
| miR-4283 | ||
| miR-4295 | Promoting bladder cancer cell proliferation (91) | |
| miR-4311 | ||
| miR-4531 | ||
| miR-5096 | ||
| miR-5187-5p | ||
| Prostate (down-regulation) | miR-15a-3p | Inducing apoptosis in human cancer cell lines (67) |
| miR-135b-5p | ||
| miR-520c-3p | Tumor suppressor (53–57) | |
| miR-4783-5p | ||
| miR-7849-3p | ||
| Prostate (overexpression) | miR-4531* | |
| miR-28-5p | Suppressing insulin-like growth factor 1 expression (80) | |
| miR-103a-2-5p | ||
| miR-105-5p | Inhibiting the expression of tumor-suppressive genes (92) | |
| miR-124-3p | Regulating cell proliferation, invasion, and apoptosis (93) | |
| miR-151a-5p | Tumor cell migration and invasion (94) | |
| miR-151b | ||
| miR-200a-5p | ||
| miR-300 | Promoting cell proliferation and invasion (95) | |
| miR-424-3p | ||
| miR-519c-5p | ||
| miR-551b-5p | ||
| miR-617 | ||
| miR-873-3p | ||
| miR-921 | ||
| miR-1288-3p | ||
| miR-3124-5p | ||
| miR-3155a | ||
| miR-3917 | ||
| miR-4283 | ||
| miR-4727-3p | ||
| miR-5096 | ||
| miR-5187-5p | ||
| miR-6074 | ||
| miR-6874-5p | ||
| miR-6892-5p |
*Marks showing miRNAs highlighted by pink lines in Fig. 5.