Omidvar et al. reported that decreased levels of VIM-AS1 and CTBP1-AS2 in PBMCs were associated with diabetes in an Iranian population, implying that the expression levels of lncRNA VIM-AS1 and lncRNA CTBP1-AS2 might be associated with T2DM susceptibility [37]. This evidence concerns the gene CTBP1 and diabetes mellitus.