In addition to the novel miR-191 targets we identified in this study, miR-191 has been previously shown to target the proliferation associated genes NDST1 in the human gastric carcinoma cell line MGC803, and CDK6, SATB1, CCND2, CSDA, and EGR1 in the human embryonic kidney cell line used in this study HEK293 [18, 21, 46]. Here, YBX3 is linked to gastric carcinoma.