Supplementary TABLE 1. Summary of available information on the hypoxia-induced microRNAs (the supplementary references are indicated). Mir-7 Mir-15a mir-21 mir-23a Mir-23b Mir-24 Mir-26a Mir-26b Mir-27a Mir-30b Mir-30d Mir-93 Mir-103 Mir-106a Mir-107 Mir-125b Mir-148a Mir-148b Mir-155 Mir-181a Mir-181b Mir-181c Mir-191 Mir-192 Mir-195 Mir-200a Mir-210 Mir-213 Mir-214 Mir-373 Let-7-i Upregulated in pancreatic and stomach cancer.1 Downregulated in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and pituitary adenoma, induced in the regenerating mouse pancreas.2,3,4 Upregulated in pancreas cancer, glioblastoma, breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, uterine leiomyomas, ovarian cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, and cardiac hypertrophy.1,5-12 Upregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma, bladder cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer, and in cardiac hypertrophy.1,5,7,12,13,14 Upregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma, bladder cancers, Human uterine leiomyomas, breast cancer, pancreas cancer, and in cardiac hypertrophy. 1,5,7,9,12,13,14 Upregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma, breast cancer, lymphoma, colon cancer, pancreas cancer, stomach cancer, down in prostate cancer, inhibits erythropoiesis; upregulated in cardiac hypertrophy.1,7,12,13,15 Downregulated in human thyroid anaplastic carcinomas, modulates late osteoblasts differentiation, up in pancreas cancer. 1,16,17 Upregulated in bladder cancers, up in pancreas cancer. 1,14 Upregulated in renal cell carcinoma, Human uterine leiomyomas, pancreas cancer, prostate cancer.1,9,14 Upregulated in pancreas cancer1 Upregulated in pancreas cancer, prostate cancer, down in human thyroid anaplastic carcinomas, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, lung cancer1,16,18 Upregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma, pancreas cancer, prostate cancer, down in cardiac hypertrophy.1,12,13 Upregulated in bladder cancers, pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer. 1,5,14 Up in lung, gastric, colon, pancreas and prostate cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, T-lymphoma, Tcell leukemia, neuroblastoma, down during megakaryocytopoiesis. 1, 13,19,20,21,22 Upregulated in colon cancer, pancreas cancer, stomach cancer 1,5 Up in pancreas cancer, stomach cancer, up in cardiac hypertrophy, down in human thyroid anaplastic carcinomas, human ovarian cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer. 1,5,710,12,16 Upregulated in lung cancer, prostate cancer, downregulated in pancreatic cancer. 1,5 Upregulated in lung cancer, prostate cancer, downregulated in pancreatic cancer.1,5 Upregulated in bad prognosis in Chronic lymphocytic leukemia and lung cancer; upregulated in breast cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, pediatric Burkitt lymphoma, colon cancer, lung cancer; downregulated in pancreas cancer (1), upregulated in pancreas cancer (5); induced during the macrophage inflammatory response.1,5,7,18,23,24 Upregulated in breast cancer, pancreas cancer, down in chronic lymphocytic leukemia, glioblastoma; correlates with morphological sub-class of acute myeloid leukaemia; role in T cell development.1,5,7,18,25,26,27,28 Upregulated in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, breast cancer, pancreas cancer, prostate cancer, downregulated in glioblastoma, downregulated in cardiac hypertrophy. 1,5,7,12,,25,29 Upregulated in pancreas cancer, downregulated in glioblastoma.1,5,25 Upregulated in stomach cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, pancreas cancer, prostate cancer. 1 Up in stomach cancer, pancreas cancer, upregulated in diabetic kidney glomeruli.1,30 Up in Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, up in cardiac hypertrophy, higher in the regenerating mouse pancreas as compared to embryonic day, up in prostate cancer. 1,4,12,29 Upregulated in human ovarian cancer.10 Upregulated in breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreas cancer, upregulated in patients with preeclampsia and small for gestational age (SGA), downregulated in ovarian cancer. 1,5,31,32 Upregulated in breast cancer, colon cancer, pancreas cancer. 1.5,7 Upregulated in pancreas cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer, up in cardiac hypertrophy; modulates Hedgehog signaling to specify muscle cell fate.1,12,33 Upregulated in testicular germ-cell tumor cell lines.34 Upregulated in breast cancer.7 Supplementary Table 2. Summary of available information on the hypoxia-repressed microRNAs (the supplementary references are indicated). . 4 Mir-15b Mir-16 Mir-20a Mir-20b Mir-26b Mir-29b Mir-30b Mir-101 Mir-122a Mir-141 Mir-195 Mir-197 Mir-224 Let-7-a Let-7-c Let-7-d Let-7-f Let-7-g Upregulated in the regenerating mouse pancreas. Downregulated in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, pituitary adenoma and breast cancer; upregulated in lung cancer, prostate cancer, pancreas cancer; upregulated in the regenerating mouse pancreas.1,2,3,4,7 Upregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma, colon cancer, pancreas cancer, prostate cancer, downregulated during megakaryocytopoiesis.1,13,22 Upregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma, T cell leukemia, downregulated during megakaryocytopoiesis. 13,20,22 Upregulated in bladder cancer, up in pancreas cancer. 1,14 Upregulated in breast cancer, colon cancer, pancreas cancer and prostate cancer, downregulated in cholangiocarcinoma, human uterine leiomyomas; role in insulin resistance.1,7,9,11,35 Upregulated in pancreas cancer1 Upregulated in megakaryoblastic leukemic cell lines, up in prostate cancer. 1,22 Downregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma, upregulated in breast cancer. 7,13 Upregulated in human ovarian cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, lung cancer. 1,10,11 Up in Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, up in cardiac hypertrophy, higher in the regenerating mouse pancreas as compared to embryonic day, up in prostate cancer. 1,4,12,29 Downregulated in human uterine leiomyomas.9 Downregulated in breast cancer, Upregulated in pancreas cancer. 1,7 Downregulated in lung cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, breast cancer, prostate cancer. 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