“…Previous studies have reported that miR-1290 and miR-320d were significantly dysregulated in various cancers, including CRC10-14. Mao et al declared that miR-1290 functions as a tumor oncogene to promote cancer progression by targeting nuclear factor I/X (NFIX) in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC)15; Ma et al reported that miR-1290 expression increases in CRC tissues and could contribute to cancer cell proliferation by targeting inositol Polyphosphate 4-Phosphatase B (INPP4B) 16; Tadano et al demonstrated miR-320 family, including miR-320a, miR-320b, miR-320c, miR-320d, and miR-320e, were frequently downregulated in colorectal adenoma and submucosal invasive carcinoma tissues and regulated tumor proliferation by targeting CDK6 17; In addition, Qin et al revealed that the expression of miR-320d is significantly decreased in glioma tissues and cell lines and overexpression of miR-320d could suppress cell growth, migration and invasion, and induce cell apoptosis as well as cell cycle at G0/G1 arrest18. Similarly, our results exhibited that circulating miR-1290 was significantly associated with tumor size, TNM stage, lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis, and circulating miR-320d was significantly correlated with tumor size, advanced TNM stage, lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis.…”