MEG3 and cancer: MEG3 SNPs are associated with multiple diseases including asthma, inflammatory response, diabetes, stroke, and cancer (Wallace et al., 2010; Han et al., 2018; Ghaedi et al., 2018; Ghafouri-Fard & Taheri, 2019; Gao et al., 2021; Zhu et al., 2021; Zhong et al., 2022).