MALAT1 and myocardial infarction: In recent studies, some specific lncRNAs were associated and experimentally validated with CVDs: lncRNA ANRIL (antisense noncoding RNA located in INK4 locus), MALAT1 (metastasis associated lung adenocarcinomas transcript 1), KCNQ1OT1 (KCNQ1 overlapping transcript 1), aHIF (natural antisense transcript derived from HIF1alpha), and MIAT (myocardial infarction associated transcript).