MALAT1 and cancer: It has also been postulated that, aberrant expression of MALAT1 modulate autophagy in various cancers including glioma, GC, HCC, and RTB by controlling micro RNAs miR-216b, miR-101, miR-124, and miR-23b-3p (Yuan et al., 2016; Fu et al., 2017; Huang X. et al., 2017; YiRen et al., 2017).