Table 2. A total of 39 altered microRNAs were found using 50 microarrays.

MicroRNA	Mean signal intensity		Fold change	P
	NPC (n = 31)	Controls (n = 19)
hsa-miR-548q	496.31	158.39	3.13	< 0.001
hsa-miR-483-5p	615.53	238.09	2.59	0.002
hsa-miR-122	817.00	330.46	2.47	0.012
hsa-miR-630	292.53	122.13	2.40	0.001
hsa-miR-135a*	252.26	106.13	2.38	0.001
hsa-miR-572	692.77	297.65	2.33	0.006
hsa-miR-940	586.09	256.28	2.29	0.001
hsa-miR-29c	365.32	164.43	2.22	0.005
hsa-miR-22	2,963.42	1,430.17	2.07	0.035
hsa-miR-1915	1,671.75	806.96	2.07	0.005
hsa-miR-762	2,212.08	1,089.96	2.03	0.048
hsa-miR-1290	253.28	124.91	2.03	0.001
hsa-miR-765	261.43	129.60	2.02	0.001
hsa-miR-92a	2,196.96	1,097.13	2.00	0.050
hsa-miR-486-5p	4,726.64	2,438.34	1.94	0.040
hsa-miR-638	11,792.79	6,090.35	1.94	0.010
hsa-miR-140-3p	276.09	143.45	1.92	0.009
hsa-miR-1246	1,151.10	606.00	1.90	0.020
hsa-miR-15b	284.72	153.94	1.85	0.013
hsa-miR-30d	211.89	115.65	1.93	0.018
hsa-miR-19a	264.51	149.60	1.77	0.035
hsa-miR-126	242.84	141.28	1.72	0.022
hsa-miR-20a	301.29	175.73	1.71	0.042
hsa-miR-185	175.68	105.20	1.67	0.004
hsa-miR-93	160.50	99.09	1.62	0.002
hsa-miR-101	161.92	104.49	1.55	0.006
hsa-miR-187*	118.51	78.63	1.51	0.041
hsa-miR-498	158.63	109.54	1.45	0.007
hsa-miR-1234	181.41	125.49	1.45	0.042
hsa-miR-1975	137.34	98.82	1.39	0.012
hsa-miR-575	136.09	98.68	1.38	0.020
hsa-miR-17	123.00	89.62	1.37	0.022
hsa-miR-130a	147.93	108.78	1.36	0.038
hsa-miR-363	137.47	104.69	1.31	0.048
hsa-miR-301a	127.85	99.89	1.28	0.009
hsa-miR-192	120.74	98.97	1.22	0.018
hsa-miR-338-3p	115.82	99.60	1.16	0.021
hsa-miR-1277	214.86	309.95	0.69	0.039
hsa-miR-584	115.88	199.49	0.58	0.040