“…Among the differentially expressed lncRNAs identified ( Tables 1 , 2 ), Oip5os1 (OIP5-AS1, transcript ID: ENSMUST00000147425, FC = 115.55), UBXN7 (transcript ID: chr16: 32388756-32392334, FC = 101.58), and Snhg12 (transcript ID: ENSMUST00000128131, FC = 44.14) exhibited significantly increased expression levels, while Junos (transcript ID: XR_003955073.1, FC = 0.016) and another transcript of Snhg12 (transcript ID: ENSMUST00000126380, FC = 0.017) exhibited downregulated expression in FDM retinal tissue samples. The lncRNA OIP5-AS1 is involved in the pathogenesis of a variety of diseases, including colon cancer ( Wang Y. et al, 2021 ), prostate cancer ( Zhang Y. et al, 2021 ), papillary thyroid cancer ( Zhang X. et al, 2021 ), and osteosarcoma ( Li et al, 2021 ), as well as heart failure ( Zhuang et al, 2021 ). More importantly, previous evidence has suggested that OIP5-AS1 might participate in the mechanisms of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and cataracts ( Zhou et al, 2020 ) ( Jing et al, 2020 ).…”