MALAT1 and infarction: Previous studies evidenced that metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript-1 (MALAT-1), myocardial infarction associated transcript (MIAT), retinal noncoding rna3 (rncr3), maternally expressed gene 3 (MEG3), and SOX2 overlapping transcript (SOX2OT) were involved in the pathological process of DR [8–11].