Meanwhile, miR-98-5p has been reported as a tumor suppressor gene to inhibit tumor growth and metastasis in a variety of cancers (Wu et al., 2019; Sun et al., 2020; Shi et al., 2021; Zhan et al., 2021), and associated with resistance to anti-tumor drug therapy (Wang et al., 2018). This evidence concerns the gene ENSG00000279284 and cancer.