Table 2.

The relative contributions of different parameters on number of miRNA targets

Variables	β value	Level of significance
ARE Scores	2.712	2.5 × 10−4
3′-UTR lengths	1.914	3.4 × 10−3
Transcript lengths	1.695	1.0 × 10−2
5′-UTR lengths	1.562	3.4 × 10−2
Intron lengths	0.335	7.1 × 10−1
CDS lengths	−0.090	9.0 × 10−1
Gene lengths	−0.151	8.3 × 10−1
Paralogs	−0.157	8.4 × 10−1
mRNA decay rates	−0.287	6.4 × 10−1
Evolutionary Rates	−0.939	1.6 × 10−1