Table 2.
No increase in correlations between miRNA expression and mRNA expression for genes with miRNA target sites
| miRNA | Target sites | All correlations (p < 0.05) | Negative correlations (p < 0.05) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
|
Target sites |
Total |
Chi square(Χ2,df, p-value) |
Target sites |
Total |
Chi square(Χ2,df, p-value) |
|
miR-15b |
526 |
5 |
541 |
(8.6,1,0.003) |
4 |
302 |
(2.6,1,0.11) |
|
miR-31 |
404 |
10 |
586 |
(1.1, 1, 0.30) |
3 |
312 |
(0.1, 1, 0.15) |
|
miR-34c |
494 |
12 |
532 |
(0.7, 1, 0.39) |
6 |
174 |
(0.7, 1, 0.82) |
|
miR-212 |
519 |
17 |
858 |
(3.3, 1, 0.07) |
3 |
271 |
(2.8, 1, 0.10) |
| miR-301a | 456 | 26 | 927 | (0.1, 1, 0.76) | 7 | 362 | (0.5, 1, 0.49) |
The total number of probes investigated was the same for all five miRNAs (n = 17208).