HNF1A and diabetes mellitus: To check whether HNF1A-DM patients could be discriminated from T2DM patients on the basis of serum miR-122, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was generated; the area under the ROC curve (AUC) for miR-122 was 0.687 (95% CI: 0.52–0.86, P = 0.07).