Fig. 6.

a Heat map diagram showing the effects of gender (pink squares—female, blue squares—male) on plasma miRNA expression. Data are normalised expression values determined by next generation sequencing, ordered by descending fold change where P < 0.05. The colour bar indicates the range of normalised expression values from −2 (green) to +2 (red). b–d RNA mass, number of clean sequencing reads and the proportion of mapped reads (%) separated by gender