COL1A2, a protein highly expressed in placenta and positively associated with various cancer metastasis,27, 28, 29 is a predicted target of miR‐16‐2‐3p in an incomplete complimentary pairing manner, as shown by the STarMir module of Sfold software (http://sfold.wadsworth.org/cgi-bin/index.pl). This evidence concerns the gene COL1A2 and cancer.