MiR-7 which is a well-researched miRNA is known to be a player in the progression of many types of cancers in human and directly targets key oncogenes such as EFGR (Kefas et al., 2008), c-KIT in brain cancer (Tamim et al., 2014), PAX6 in colorectal cancer (Needhamsen et al., 2014) and AKT in hepatocellular carcinoma (Fang et al., 2012). Here, AKT1 is linked to cancer.