QKI and neoplasm: In most instances, QKI serves as a target gene for miRNAs, including miR-155, miR-221, miR-200c, miR-200, miR-574-5p, miR-143-3p (He et al., 2016), and miR-362-5p (Wei et al., 2020), which mostly are associated with tumor proliferation and migration.