Interestingly, qRT-PCR and western blotting demonstrated that overexpression of miR-3940-5p (via miR-3940-5p mimics transfected into cell lines after 48 h) induced a strong decrease in CUL7 expression in glioma cell lines (Fig. S4b-c, Fig. 7c). The gene discussed is CUL7; the disease is glioma.