Table 2.
Candidate miRNAs selected from the miRNAs with differential expression profiles on a microarray analysis.
| Name of miRNA | (S versus C∗) Fold change | Foreground-background§ | (T versus C) Fold-change | Foreground-background | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | S | C | T | |||
| Upregulated | ||||||
| hsa-miR-7-5p | 4.26 | 1045 | 4638 | 3.53 | 1045 | 4214 |
| hsa-miR-502-3p | 7.05 | 206 | 1511 | 6.33 | 206 | 1488 |
| hsa-miR-200c-5p | 5.34 | 178 | 989 | 3.72 | 178 | 754 |
| hsa-miR-1301 | 6.52 | 122 | 832 | 3.42 | 122 | 478 |
| Downregulated | ||||||
| hsa-miR-154-5p | 3.4 | 419 | 128 | 3.96 | 419 | 120 |
| hsa-let-7i-3p | 23.05 | 410 | 18.5 | 18.71 | 410 | 25 |
| hsa-miR-129-2-3p | 4.95 | 28 | 97 | 22.59 | 459 | 25 |
| hsa-miR-196a-3p | 6.81 | 626 | 95 | 8.25 | 626 | 86 |
*C, S, and T represent nonsmoker controls, smokers, and lung-cancer patients, respectively.
§Foreground-background represents the signal of the probe after background correction.