CHUK and type 2 diabetes mellitus: There was high positive significant correlation between both mRNAs TMEM173 and CHUK and the three miRNAs: hsa-miR (-611, -5192, and -1976) while it was a negative correlation with the two lncRNAs: RP4-605O3.4 and AC074117.2 among all the studied groups and also among the prediabetic and the healthy control group which suggests that the lncRNAs work as a ceRNA competing with the miRNAs for the mRNA pool in the molecular pathogenesis of IR, prediabetes, and T2DM (Table S2-S4).