MIAT and myocardial infarction: MIAT has been identified as a risk allele for myocardial infarction in a large-scale case–control association study in Japanese subjects.4 A recent study revealed that MIAT might act as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA), and form a feedback loop with vascular endothelial growth factor and miR-150-5p to regulate endothelial cell function.5