A study in humans demonstrated that piR-hsa-28846 was significantly upregulated in the serum of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) compared to healthy controls, showing high diagnostic value with an AUC of 0.838 [Huang et al. DOI:10.1016/j.jjcc.2023.06.015]. A study in humans using massively parallel sequencing of small RNAs in six forensic body fluids/tissues identified the piR-hsa-28846 as an absolute specific marker (ASM) for venous blood, where it was discovered in this research and demonstrated high specificity [Liu et al. DOI:10.3390/genes13091530].