Table 2. Pilot study on plasma miRNA expression.

Name	ΔCt		2-ΔΔCt	t	P
	NPC (n = 22)	NPI (n = 7)
miR-16	−11.102 ± 3.828	−6.251 ± 1.489	28.860	4.893	<0.001**
miR-155	−4.061 ± 5.777	−0.036 ± 1.986	16.287	2.791	0.010*
miR-24	−5.807 ± 3.416	−2.589 ± 1.808	9.305	2.369	0.025*
miR-21	−8.120 ± 3.555	−5.387 ± 3.803	6.648	1.744	0.093
miR-143	6.810 ± 6.789	8.484 ± 2.613	3.191	0.631	0.533
miR-141	−4.425 ± 2.489	−4.236 ± 1.291	1.140	0.191	0.850
miR-10b	−4.474 ± 2.463	−4.386 ± 1.838	1.063	0.087	0.931
miR-15a	0.207 ± 3.700	0.060 ± 2.162	0.903	−0.099	0.922
miR-26a	0.616 ± 3.802	0.380 ± 2.903	0.849	−0.150	0.882
miR-130a	−4.345 ± 3.195	−4.609 ± 2.001	0.833	−0.204	0.840
let-7a	4.708 ± 3.132	4.350 ± 3.162	0.780	−0.263	0.795
miR-145	−4.561 ± 2.522	−4.940 ± 1.765	0.769	−0.364	0.718
miR-221	−2.914 ± 2.294	−3.333 ± 2.653	0.748	−0.406	0.688
miR-92a	9.005 ± 3.637	8.297 ± 1.834	0.612	−0.491	0.627
miR-211	−2.734 ± 2.426	−3.733 ± 3.215	0.500	−0.878	0.388
miR-34a	−1.731 ± 2.686	−2.790 ± 3.042	0.480	−0.881	0.386
miR-31	−4.014 ± 3.060	−5.137 ± 1.841	0.459	−0.913	0.369
miR-9	−4.143 ± 3.234	−5.316 ± 2.331	0.443	−0.884	0.385
miR-184	−1.216 ± 2.845	−2.939 ± 2.780	0.303	−1.402	0.172
miR-29c	−4.024 ± 3.750	−5.967 ± 2.360	0.260	−1.622	0.124
miR-378	−1.922 ± 3.173	−5.970 ± 3.656	0.091	−2.839	0.009**

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01