MALAT1 and esophageal cancer: miR-101, miR-217 and MALAT1 siRNA have common downstream genes like MIA2, HNF4G, ROBO1, CCT4 and CTHRC1, and miR-101 or miR-217 and MALAT1 were negatively correlated in 42 pairs of esophageal cancer tissue samples and adjacent normal tissues [31].