“…MiRNAs play key roles in many physiological and pathological processes, including tumorigenesis, proliferation, hematopoiesis, metabolism, immune function, epigenetics, and neurodegenerative diseases (Miska, 2005 ; O'Connell et al, 2010 ). SNP in miRNAs correlated closely with traditional risk factors of IS, such as atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol) (Boucherat et al, 2015 ; Li et al, 2015 ; Gómez-Banoy and Mockus, 2016 ; Schober and Weber, 2016 ). The four miRNAs we focused on—miR-146a, miR-149, miR-196a2, and miR-499—are intimately related to regulation of TNF-α (El Gazzar et al, 2011 ), MTHFR (Wu et al, 2013 ), annexin A1 (ANXA1) (Luthra et al, 2008 ), and CRP (Yang et al, 2012 ) respectively, which were general causes of cerebral ischemia.…”