Interestingly, the miRNA resides on chromosome 13 and belongs to the C13orf25/miR-17-92 cluster, that is under the transcriptional regulation by multiple factors including c-Myc, E2F, etc. c-Myc was reported to be downregulated in uncomplicated malaria initially but returned to its normal expression levels with clinical recovery (Colborn et al. 2015). Here, MYC is linked to malaria.