MYC and thyroid tumor: However, another group found that the inhibition of miR-17 increased MYCN and c-MYC expression, which increased pri-miR-17-92 transcripts and the expression of oncogene miRNAs (miR-18a and miR-19a), demonstrating that miR-17 inhibition did not regulate thyroid tumor growth in two different cell lines of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma [26].