PPP1R15B and diabetes mellitus: From a consensus list of miR-98-5p target genes (293 genes) extracted using three miRNA prediction online tools (miRDB, TargetScan and PicTar), PPP1R15B was prioritised since it is implicated in diabetes and is identified as an underlying monogenic cause of maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY)(Abdulkarim et al. 2015, Kernohan et al. 2015).