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. 2009 Apr 27;10:195. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-195

Table 2.

Total number of miRNAs and miRNA genes identified in this study.

Number of known miRNAs detected 173
Number of new miRNAs identified in this study 25
Total number of miRNAs identified in this study 198
Number of known predicted miRNA genes detected 265
Number of novel genes identified in this study 55
Total of genes indentified in this study 320

DNA pyrosequencing identified 198 miRNAs. 173 were known from cloning and Sanger sequencing and 25 were novel miRNAs. These mature miRNAs are encoded by 320 ZF genes.