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. 2025 Aug 22;151(8):233. doi: 10.1007/s00432-025-06271-1

Table 8.

Combinations of miRNAs in the diagnosis of BC

Combinations of miRNA SN [%] SP [%] AUC References
miR-1246+miR-206+miR-24+miR-373 98.0 96.0 0.992 Jang et al. (2021)
miR-145-5p+miR-191-5p (miR-222-3p normalization) 94.3 100 0.984 Ashirbekov et al. (2020)
let-7b-5p+miR-122-5p+miR-146b-5p+miR-210-3p+miR-215-5p (external validation set) 94.4 88.9 0.978 Li et al. (2019)
miR-92a-3p+miR-23b-3p+miR-191-5p 89.2 96 0.977 Sharifi et al. (2022)
miR-1246+miR-1307-3p+miR-4634+miR-6861-5p+miR-6875-5p (in the test cohort) 97.3 82.9 0.971 Shimomura et al. (2016)
miR-145+miR-425-5p+miR-139-5p+miR-130a 97 91 0.97 Itani et al. (2021)
miR-1246+miR-202+miR-21+miR-219B (patients under the age of 50) 85.29 93.33 0.961 Jang et al. (2021)
miR-185-5p+miR-362-5p 92.65 92.31 0.957 Zhang et al. (2021)
miR-451+miR-148a+miR-27a+miR-30b 94.7 82.8 0.953 Luo et al. (2014)
miR-10b-5p+miR-133a-3p+miR-155-3p+miR-195-5p+miR-195-3p 79 100 0.948 Jing et al. (2024)
c-miR-16+c-miR-21+c-miR-155+c-miR-195 88.89 86.67 0.936 Fan et al. (2018)
miR-21+miR-155+miR-365 85.71 85.72 0.918 Han et al. (2017)
miR-199a+miR-29c+miR-424 77.2 88.9 0.905 Zhang et al. (2015)
BC vs normal hsa-miR-324-3p/hsa-miR-382-5p, hsa-miR-21-3p/hsa-miR-324-3p, hsa-miR-30a-5p/hsa-miR-30e-5p, hsa-miR-221-3p/hsa-miR-324-3p 89.0 92.5 0.901 Fang et al. 2018)
BC vs benign hsa-miR-30a-5p/hsa-miR-382-5p, hsa-miR-192-5p/hsa-miR-382-5p, hsa-miR-192-5p/hsa-miR-574-5p, hsa-miR-21-3p/hsa-miR-221-3p, hsa-miR-221-3p/hsa-miR-30a-5p 88.1 77.5 0.901
BC vs control (normal+benign) hsa-miR-30e-5p/hsa-miR-382-5p, hsa-miR-221-3p/hsa-miR-324-3p, hsa-miR-30a-5p/hsa-miR-382-5p, hsa-miR-152/hsa-miR-382-5p, hsa-miR-192-5p/hsa-miR-382-5p 71.7 78.2 0.820
miR-195+miR-210+miR-21+miR-16 71.4 100 0.898 Miranda et al. (2024)
miR-21-3p+miR-21-5p+miR-99a-5p 97.9 73.5 0.895 Yu et al. (2018)
EV-miRNAs: miR-9+miR-16+miR-21+miR-429 96.8 80 0.88 Kim et al. (2021)
EV-miRNAs: miR-142-5p+miR-320a+miR-4433b-5p (BC patients vs healthy controls) 93.33 68.75 0.8387 Ozawa et al. (2020)
(luminal A vs healthy controls) 100 93.8 0.9410
miR-30b-5p+miR-99a-5p 57.4 87.54 0.77 Adam-Artigues et al. (2021)
in stage I BC 82.35 87.54 0.9273
miR-210+miR-152 83.33 68.0 0.754 Lopes et al. (2021)
miR-23a-3p+miR-130a-5p+miR-144-3p+miR-148a-3p+miR-152-3p 86.5 45.9 0.699 Li et al. (2020)
miR-15a+miR-18a+miR-107+miR-133a+miR-139-5p+miR-143+miR-145+miR-365+miR-425 83.3 41.2 0.665 Kodahl et al. (2014)