Changes in myocardial infarction-related transcripts (MIAT) that are caused by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), may be related to the pathogenesis of myocardial infarction, and in vitro translation analysis indicates that MIAT did not encode any translation products, indicating that it may be a functional lncRNA (Ishii et al., 2006). This evidence concerns the gene MIAT and myocardial infarction.