DELs (targeted studies) and DEMs (miRNAs associated with hub molecules among the top pathway and the targets reported at both mRNA and protein levels) were used to screen the experimentally validated interaction between them by DIANA-LncBase v3 (https://diana.e-ce.uth.gr/lncbasev3) (Karagkouni et al., 2020 (link)). Both the subunits of miRNA, i.e., ā€œ-3pā€ and ā€œ-5pā€ were considered for finding associated lncRNAs in those cases where the subunits were not specified. Then, lncRNA-miRNA and miRNA-mRNA co-expression pairs (positive relation) were then used to construct ceRNA interaction networks (lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA). The networks were visualized using Cytoscape. Another database, mirTarBase (mirtarbase.cuhk.edu.cn), containing more than three hundred and sixty thousand miRNA-mRNA interactions was then used to categorize the miRNA-mRNA interactions with strong evidence (Reporter assay/Western blot/qPCR) or less strong evidence (Microarray, NGS, pSILAC, CLIP-Seq and others).
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