“…Although some differentially expressed genes were shared between T2D and control samples ( Figure 3 B), 181 up- and 179 down-regulated genes were differentially regulated specifically in T2D compared to the control samples, including 35 up- and 22 down-regulated lncRNA genes ( Supplementary Table S6 ). Among these up-regulated lncRNA genes, only the following nine have been previously studied: (1) ENSG00000232855 (novel transcript) [ 75 ]; (2) ENSG00000272512 (novel transcript) [ 76 ]; (3) KCNJ2 antisense RNA 1 (KCNJ2-AS1) [ 77 , 78 , 79 ]; (4) KLHDC7B divergent transcript (KLHDC7B-DT) [ 80 , 81 , 82 ]; (5) long intergenic non-protein-coding RNA 2015 (LINC02015) [ 83 , 84 ]; (6) long intergenic non-protein-coding RNA 2381 (LINC02381) [ 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 ]; (7) long intergenic non-protein-coding RNA 2541 (LINC02541) [ 94 ]; (8) serpin family B member 9 pseudogene 1 (SERPINB9P1) [ 95 , 96 , 97 ]; and (9) USP30 antisense RNA 1 (USP30-AS1) [ 98 , 99 , 100 ]. However, only the functions of the lncRNA genes LINC02381 and USP30_AS1 are known, with the former known to bind transcription factors [ 85 ], RNA-binding proteins [ 86 ], and miRNAs [ 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 ]; while USP30-AS1 acts as a miRNA sponge [ 98 , 99 ] and is involved in the cis-regulation of the nearby protein-coding genes USP30 and ANKRD13A [ 100 ].…”