INS and Insulin resistance: Correlation coefficients between studied miRs and various biomarkers in all cases (n = 79): Table 6 highlights that hsa-miR-21-5p expression is positively correlated with AFP, serum insulin and insulin resistance status (r = 0.5, p < 0.001, r = 0.334, p = 0.01 and r = 0.303, p = 0.02).