MTUS1 and colon adenocarcinoma: Meanwhile, a study based on a Chinese patient population showed that hsa-miR-125b-5p was screened out for the early diagnosis of COAD (Wang et al., 2016) and another study concerned about the function of hsa-miR-125b-5p in COAD carcinogenesis independent from the MTUS1 (Ozcan et al., 2016).