The results of the qRT-PCR analysis performed on 108 paired GC tumor tissues (R2 = 0.3655, P<0.0001), SGC-7901 cells (R2 = 0.7726, P = 0.0008) and BGC-823 cells (R2 = 0.8703, P<0.0001) found a negative correlation between the expressions of miR-15b-3p and DYNLT1 (Fig. 3g and Additional file 4: Figure S4). Here, DYNLT1 is linked to gastric cancer.