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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: Pancreas. 2013 Jul;42(5):740–759. doi: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e3182854ab0

Table 1.

miRNAs in Cancer Blood

Type of Cancer miRNAs Source Down-regulated Up-regulated Compare with Cancer Tissue Reference
Pancreas Serum, Plasma miR-18a, miR-21, miR- 210, miR-155, miR-196a, miR-200 N/A miR-18a, miR-21, miR-155, miR- 200, miR-196 is also over- expressed in pancreatic cancer tissue and cell line. 11,12,52
Lung PBMCs let-7 a,c,d,e,f,g, miR-15a, miR-20a, miR-98,miR-126, miR-195 let-7i, miR-19a, miR-22, miR-423-5p, miR-126, let-7 family, miR-22, miR-19 expression in PBMCs are correlated with lung cancer tissue. MiR-20a is inversely correlated in lung cancer tissue. 8
Ovary Whole Blood Let 7f-1, miR-28-3p, miR- 29a, mir-106b, miR-138-2, miR-146a, miR-181a, miR-181a-2, miR-192, miR-342-3p, miR-450-5p, miR-616, miR-628-5p,miR-1287 miR-16, miR-30c-1, miR-187, miR-191, miR-191, miR-383, miR-423-3p, miR-499-3p, miR-546-5p, miR-1181, miR- 1228, miR-1253, miR-1254, miR-1289, miR-1908, miR-1915 miR-30c-1, miR-191, miR-155, miR-16, miR-106b, miR-146a, miR-29a, and miR-383 are connected to ovarian cancer while the other miRs are not reported to be connected to the ovarian cancer. 10
Gastric Plasma miR-21, miR-106b Let-7a Inverse relationship between the plasma miRs and gastric cancer miRs expression level. 13
Acute Leukemia Plasma miR-92 N/A Acute leukemia cell might in-take miR-92 with exosome thus decreasing the miR-92 concentration in plasma. 14
Oral Plasma N/A miR-31 miR-31 is over-expressed in oral cancer tissue. miR-31 level decreased after surgical removal of cancer, very likely that the circulating miR-31 is tumor derived. 15
Colorectal Plasma N/A miR-29a, miR-92a miR-92 is also found to be up- regulated in breast cancer serum sample and in other cancer tissue. MiR-29a is up-regulated in lung and advanced colorectial neoplasia and its role in cancer biology is still unclear. 17
Melanoma PBMC miR-452, miR216a, miR- 17, miR-646, miR-217, miR-517, miR-593,let- 7i,miR-330-3p, miR-767-5p, miR-20b, miR-509-3-5p, miR-519b-5p, miR-518e, miR-221, miR-214,miR-106b, miR-18b, miR-108, miR-20a Let-7d, miR-18a, miR-22, miR-30a,e, miR-99a, miR-125a-5p, miR-142-3p, miR-145, miR-146a, miR-155-3p, miR-181a-2, miR-183, miR-186, miR-199a-5p, miR-328, miR-343-5p, miR-361-3p, miR-362-5p, miR-363-3p, miR-365, miR-378, miR-422a, miR-501-5p, miR-550, miR-584, miR-625, miR-664, miR-1249, miR-1280 miR-216a and miR-186 expression level are correlated with the melanoma tissue miRs expression level. 18