“…Thirteen lncRNAs are implicated in the physio-pathological process of COPD by sponging miRNAs ( Figure 2 ). Of these, eleven differentially expressed lncRNAs have been found in human bio-samples (including whole blood, serum, sputum, and lung tissue samples) from COPD patients: NNT-AS1 ( Mei et al, 2020 ), MEG3 ( Lei et al, 2021 ), LUCAT1 ( Zhao et al, 2021 ), SNHG5 ( Shen et al, 2020 ), CASC2 ( Liu et al, 2021a ), TUG1 ( Gu et al, 2019 ), OIP5-AS1 ( Hao et al, 2021 ), LOC729178 ( Wang et al, 2021 ), XIST ( Chen et al, 2021 ), LINC00612 ( Luo et al, 2020 ), and MIR155HG ( Song et al, 2020 ). There is a possibility that these lncRNAs could be clinically helpful in diagnosing and treating COPD.…”