Table 3. 21 potential novel miRNA species in human milk fat globules were identified from rhGH synchronized lactating women in our discovery set (n = 6) by massive parallel sequencing.

Novel miRNA	Number of discovery set samples with putative novel miRNA(n 6 in total)	Number of reads
Novel-miR-102	5	2201
Novel-miR-79	5	1639
Novel-miR-85	4	205
Novel-miR-114	4	117
Novel-miR-54	4	34
Novel-miR-37	4	20
Novel-miR-67	3	94
Novel-miR-27	3	82
Novel-miR-109	3	63
Novel-miR-123	3	53
Novel-miR-44	3	36
Novel-miR-111	3	28
Novel-miR-120	3	24
Novel-miR-118.2	2	54
Novel-miR-62	2	24
Novel-miR-112	2	22
Novel-miR-113	2	16
Novel-miR-138	2	14
Novel-miR-126	2	12
Novel-miR-38	2	11
Novel-miR-68	2	10

12 of 21 (57%) species were thereafter confirmed in our robust validated set (n = 33) and are designated in bold.