Similar to the present study, miR-875 was considered as one of the 14 candidate miRNAs which potentially target EGFR and act as the therapeutic target of lung cancer in Lawrence WC Chan’s study (Chan et al., 2012), and miR-875 was also linked to cell apoptosis pathways in dopaminergic neuronal cells and severe H1N1 viral infected cells (Juan Moran, 2014; Li et al., 2013). The gene discussed is EGFR; the disease is lung carcinoma.