The results showed that LINC00346 harbors putative target sites for many miRNAs, especially miR-188-3p, miR-1224-3p, and miR-505-5p (Fig. 4a), whose expression tended to be associated with prognosis of pancreatic cancer based on TCGA datasets (Fig. 4b). This evidence concerns the gene PRECSIT and familial pancreatic carcinoma.