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. 2012 Mar 8;2(2):e000825. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000825

Table 2.

Predictive performance of individual serum miRNAs and miRNA classifier (miR-15b and miR-130b) as biomarkers for detection of HCC

Statistical parameters Non-cancerous controls (n=59) versus HCCs (n=57)
miR-15b (≥43.485 copies/ng) miR-21 (≥73 271.020 copies/ng) miR-130b (≥97.250 copies/ng) miR-183 (≥40.100 copies/ng) miR-15b + miR-130b (≥−0.6111 sum score)
Sensitivity (%) 98.25 89.47 87.72 57.89 98.25
Specificity (%) 15.25 71.19 81.36 69.49 91.53
False-positive rate (%) 84.75 28.81 18.64 30.51 8.47
False-negative rate (%) 1.75 10.53 12.28 42.11 1.75
Accuracy (%) 56.03 80.17 84.48 63.79 94.83
Positive predictive value (%) 52.83 75.00 81.97 64.71 91.80
Negative predictive value (%) 90 87.50 87.27 63.08 98.18
Positive likelihood ratio 1.159 3.105 4.705 1.898 11.593
Negative likelihood ratio 0.115 0.148 0.151 0.606 0.019
Youden's Index 0.135 0.607 0.691 0.274 0.898
Area under the receiver operating characteristic 0.485 0.865 0.913 0.661 0.981

HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; microRNA, miRNA.