SNHG3 and cancer: Although there have been no research investigations on the direct interactions between SNHG3 and its targeting miRNAs in HCC, several studies have found that SNHG3 forms a ceRNA network by sponging miRNAs in other cancers (Chen, Wu & Zhang, 2019; Huang et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2019; Zheng et al., 2019).