As interaction prediction methods are susceptible to error and to minimize this, we compared the predicted targets of the differentially expressed lncRNAs with the differentially expressed mRNAs and microRNAs36 calculated with the TCGA patients, because we consider that the targets of DE lncRNAs would possibly be DE in TCGA analysis. With this approach, we intended to enrich our analysis for targets with a greater propensity to be occurring biologically.