Some of them were related to chronic diabetes complications like nephropathy and cardiomyopathy and to glucose levels (NEAT1, MALAT1, PVT1, HOTAIRM1) or to autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, polymyositis, psoriasis, autoimmune thyroid disease and T1D (MALAT1, NEAT1, PVT1). This evidence concerns the gene HOTAIRM1 and type 1 diabetes mellitus.