It is worth mentioning here that the upregulation of MALAT1 through miR-200c-3p sponging leads to an increase in the level of the transcriptional repressor ZEB1 and contributes to the promotion of the EMT process (Pretzsch et al. 2019), and thus the migration and invasiveness of cancer cells (Zhuo et al. 2018). Here, MALAT1 is linked to cancer.