Table 2. Important miRNA summary statistics.

Mean-adjusted counts				Mean-adjusted counts
miRNA	Normal mucosa	Carcinoma tissue	Fold changea	miRNA	Normal mucosa	Carcinoma tissue	Fold change
Colon data set				Rectal data set
Hsa-miR-663b	34.40	68.54	1.99	Hsa-miR-663b	30.79	61.96	2.01
Hsa-miR-4539	83.22	53.67	0.64	Hsa-miR-17-5p	14.18	53.07	3.74
Hsa-miR-17-5p	15.07	49.57	3.29	Hsa-miR-4323	14.39	8.51	0.59
Hsa-miR-20a-5p	16.32	57.34	3.51	Hsa-miR-20a-5p	15.07	60.65	4.02
Hsa-miR-663a	276.96	416.95	1.51	Hsa-miR-378a-3p	152.32	113.25	0.74
Hsa-miR-4538	188.66	138.38	0.73	Hsa-miR-93-5p	13.18	35.72	2.71
Hsa-miR-21-5p	145.44	389.67	2.68	Hsa-miR-4539	67.90	44.73	0.66
Hsa-miR-215	66.77	39.18	0.59	Hsa-miR-378i	75.13	57.02	0.76
Hsa-miR-4506	6.62	10.06	1.52	Hsa-miR-21-5p	127.02	381.56	3.00
Hsa-miR-92a-3p	39.52	99.46	2.52	Hsa-miR-92a-3p	44.28	115.80	2.61
Hsa-miR-93-5p	13.39	34.34	2.56	Hsa-miR-145-5p	270.28	131.80	0.49
Hsa-miR-192-5p	128.10	81.90	0.64	Hsa-miR-150-5p	38.50	12.87	0.33
Hsa-miR-145-5p	210.80	125.59	0.60	Hsa-miR-3651	27.47	59.73	2.17
Hsa-miR-3651	23.57	52.27	2.22	Hsa-miR-4749-3p	14.90	8.83	0.59
Hsa-miR-378a-3p	152.31	113.77	0.75	Hsa-miR-4506	5.42	8.88	1.64
Hsa-miR-378i	75.85	57.65	0.76	Hsa-miR-424-3p	23.45	36.87	1.57
—	—	—	—	Hsa-miR-6073	7.14	4.43	0.62

miRNA, microRNA.

^aCalculated as mean normal mucosa/mean carcinoma.