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Table 1.

Comparison of gene expression variability between miRNA target genes and non-miRNA-target genes

	Seed region based method		Experimentally verified^a
	Tar1-2/Non	Tar>2/Non	Targets/Non
Num	2454/1663	1904/1663	109/1663
Median	0.077/0.078	0.08/0.078	0.087/0.078
P-value^#	0.77	0.011^*	0.001^*

Tar1-2, target genes recognized by 1–2 miRNA seeds; Tar>2, target genes recognized by three or more miRNA seeds; Non, non-miRNA-target genes; Num, gene numbers.

^#Based on Two-tailed Mann–Whitney test.

*P < 0.05.

^aThe experimentally verified targets are the targets of miR-124, which is one of the most abundant miRNAs in brain. These targets seem to be down-regulated in mRNA levels by miR-124 (12). We downloaded the target information of miR-124 from TarBase (50).