Of these, piRNA-L-163_igs (in brief as piR-L-163) is a piRNA-L aligned to intron 10 of LAMC2 gene on chromosome 1 and the top commonly downregulated piRNA-L in NSCLC cell lines (Fig. 3a, Supplementary Fig. 5a,b and Supplementary Table 2). Here, LAMC2 is linked to non-small cell lung carcinoma.