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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Sci Ther. 2015 May 25;7(5):145–154. doi: 10.4172/1948-5956.1000340

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Comparative expression analysis of miR-21 and miR-146b in 18 paired samples of FFPE cell blocks of tumor and normal tissue from papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients’ individually using qRT-PCR. Combined data for both races (A and C) and race-specific data (B and D) is presented. There was a significant up-regulation of miRNA-21 in African American (AA) patients when compared to Caucasian American (CA) patients (3B). Overall, while miR-146b appears to be up-regulated, a larger percentage of CA samples than AA samples followed this trend (3D). The miRNAs expression was normalized using RNU48 miRNA. P values represent comparison between normal and tumor (3A, 3C), and CA tumor vs AA tumor (3B, 3D) using F test.