The authors would like to state a misinterpretation of the findings of Professor Timmons and his coworkers in Reference 61 [Gallagher et al 2010. Genome Med. 2(2):9]. The authors wish to add: "A separate miRNA profiling study by Gallagher et al [61] using muscle tissue biopsies of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and T2D individuals showed 62 dysregulated miRNAs of which miR-144, miR-106b, miR-142-3p, miR-185, miR-451, miR-589, miR-665, miR-668, miR-126*, miR-199a-3p, miR-208a, miR-30e, miR-331-3p, miR-342-3p, miR-374a and miR-374b showed similar expression pattern as observed in our human/animal model studies. Moreover, miR-144 was also found to be highly up-regulated (with a fold change of 2.6) in their T2D samples."
Citation: Karolina DS, Armugam A, Tavintharan S, Wong MTK, Lim SC, Sum CF, et al. (2011) Correction: MicroRNA 144 Impairs Insulin Signaling by Inhibiting the Expression of Insulin Receptor Substrate 1 in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. PLoS ONE 6(9): 10.1371/annotation/698b7123-174f-4a09-95c9-fd6f5017d622. https://doi.org/10.1371/annotation/698b7123-174f-4a09-95c9-fd6f5017d622
Published: September 02, 2011
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