In order to elucidate the potential mechanism of PART1 involved in the progression of pancreatic cancer, the online predictive tool of lncRNAs (http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/starbase2/index.php) was used for bioinformatics analysis and found that PART1 (NR_028509.1) contained putative binding sites for miR-122 (Fig. 5a). Here, PART1 is linked to familial pancreatic carcinoma.