Table 4.

Intra-assay repeatability of the modified TaqMan^® Small RNA Assay.

	Aliquot 1	Aliquot 2	Aliquot 3
	CT	CT	CT	Average CT	SD	CV %
Muscle
miR-1	25.93	25.81	25.93	25.89	0.07	0.27
miR-16	26.58	26.41	26.53	26.51	0.09	0.33
miR-21	34.94	35.09	35.18	35.07	0.12	0.34
RNU44	33.98	33.88	34.13	34.00	0.13	0.38
Plasma
miR-16	21.94	21.77	21.78	21.83	0.10	0.45
miR-20a	26.45	26.24	26.26	26.32	0.12	0.44
miR-146a	26.69	26.65	26.58	26.64	0.06	0.21
miR-454	28.79	28.64	28.75	28.73	0.08	0.28