“…We established a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network consisting of 165 nodes and 170 edges and identified 18 hub genes by MCODE plugin in Cytoscape. The 18 hub genes have been reported to be associated with gastric cancer, which are CCND2 [27] STAT3 [28], TP53 [29], MCL1 [30], MYC [31], FOXO1 [32], FOXO3 [33], BCL2L11 [34], GSK3B [35], CDKN1A [36], CDH1 [37], PTEN [38], MTOR [39], MAPK1 [40], CASP3, CDC42[41], SMAD4 [42] and IL6 [43]. All of them were predicted target genes for hsa-miR-197-3p, hsa-miR-451a, hsa-miR-136-5p, hsa-miR-337-3p, hsa-miR-654-3p, hsa-miR-182-5p, hsa-miR-1228-3p, hsa-miR-942-5p, hsa-miR-488-3p and hsa-miR-876-3p, and all these 10 miRNAs were predicted miRNAs for hsa_circ_0001013.…”