Although this was the first time that lncRNA HOXA10-AS and miR-340-3p were reported to be relevant to the progression of pancreatic cancer, there exsited other studies reporting that lncRNA HOXA10-AS promoted the proliferation of oral cancer 34 and was also a new oncogene in gliomas 35. Here, HOXA10 is linked to familial pancreatic carcinoma.