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As identification of miRNA-disease associations via biological experiments is time-consuming and expensive, computational methods are currently used as effective complements to determine the potential associations between disease and miRNA.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We present a novel method of neural inductive matrix completion with graph convolutional network (NIMCGCN) for predicting miRNA-disease association. NIMCGCN first uses graph convolutional networks to learn miRNA and disease latent feature representations from the miRNA and disease similarity networks. Then, learned features were input into a novel neural inductive matrix completion (NIMC) model to generate an association matrix completion. The parameters of NIMCGCN were learned based on the known miRNA-disease association data in a supervised end-to-end way. We compared the proposed method with other state-of-the-art methods. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve results showed that our method is significantly superior to existing methods. Furthermore, 50, 47 and 48 of the top 50 predicted miRNAs for three high-risk human diseases, namely, colon cancer, lymphoma and kidney cancer, were verified using experimental literature. 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