MIAT and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia: MIAT, also termed as Gomafu in human or Rncr2 in mouse [16–18], is a promising functional factor among all disease-associated lncRNAs, and exhibits deregulation in multiple diseases, including up-regulation in ischemic stroke, myocardial infarction, neuroendocrine prostate cancer, non-small-cell lung cancer, diabetic cardiomyopathy, cataract, chronic chagas disease cardiomyopathy, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and down-regulation in schizophrenia, diabetic nephropathy, bone disease.