A study in humans identified the mir-1227-3p as a diagnostic biomarker for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and coronary artery disease (CAD), where it was upregulated in the CAD group compared to the AMI group and was part of an 18-exosomal-miRNA panel that achieved an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.75 for CAD detection [Guo et al. DOI:10.21037/atm-20-2337].