For experimental validation in oral tumors, we narrowed down that candidate miRNAs to six (miR-137, miR-148a-3p, miR-30a-5p, miR-30b-5p, miR-338-3p and miR-22-3p) by reviewing the functional evidence present in the literature, analyzing their expression in HNSCC datasets from TCGA and correlating with OIP5-AS1 expression (Supplementary Table S2). Here, OIP5 is linked to head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.