TABLE 1.

Up-regulated miRNAs in human primary pterygium (fold change ≥ 2, P<0.05)

Gene symbol	Official name provided by HGNCa	Fold changeb	P-value
MIR1246	miRNA1246	4.5	0.001
MIR486	miRNA486	4.4	0.004
MIR451	miRNA451	4.1	0.010
MIR3172	miRNA3172	3.4	0.009
MIR3175	miRNA3175	3.3	<0.001
MIR1308	miRNA1308	3.2	0.02
MIR1972	miRNA1972	3.0	<0.001
MIR143c	miRNA143	2.7	0.008
MIR211	miRNA211	2.7	0.03
MIR665	miRNA665	2.3	0.01
MIR1973	miRNA1973	2.2	0.04
MIR18A	miRNA18A	2.1	0.004
MIR143	miRNA143	2.0	0.006
MIR663B	miRNA663b	2.0	0.02

Up-regulated miRNAs in human primary pterygium versus normal conjunctival tissue.

^aHGNC: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee.

^bExpression level is given as average normalized (log transformed) signal intensity.

^cAntisense miRNA