Four of the glucose-regulated miRNAs found in this study, mir-124, mir-212, mir-132, and mir-409-3p, were previously reported to be upregulated in the mouse insulin secreting cell line, MIN6, after 16 h stimulation in 25 mM glucose [31], which is noteworthy despite that tumour-derived cell lines have been shown to generally exhibit significantly different miRNA signature compared to primary cells [6]. This evidence concerns the gene INS and neoplasm.