Circulating microRNA-122, microRNA-126-3p and microRNA-146a are associated with inflammation in patients with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus: A case control study

• Fahime Zeinali ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fahime Zeinali, Seyed Mohsen Aghaei Zarch

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran, Nutrition and Food Security Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Seyed Mohsen Aghaei Zarch ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fahime Zeinali, Seyed Mohsen Aghaei Zarch

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Alireza Jahan-Mihan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States of America

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• Seyed Mehdi Kalantar,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran, Yazd Clinical and Research Center of Infertility, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Mohammad Yahya Vahidi Mehrjardi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Yazd Diabetic Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Hossein Fallahzadeh,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Center of Prevention and Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Disease, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Mahdieh Hosseinzadeh,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran, Nutrition and Food Security Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Masoud Rahmanian,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Yazd Diabetic Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Hassan Mozaffari-Khosravi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: mozaffari.kh@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran, Nutrition and Food Security Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran, Yazd Diabetic Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4989-1508

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