A number of retinal LncRNAs including MALAT1, MIAT1, ANRIL, and CytB are also aberrantly expressed in diabetes, and are associated with the regulation of metabolic abnormalities implicated in the development of diabetic retinopathy including inflammation, oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage.20, 21, 22, 23. The gene discussed is MT-CYB; the disease is diabetes mellitus.