Table 4. Pearson correlation analysis of early-phase plasma and hepatic miR-1246 with Aspartate transaminase (AST) and Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) in liver transplantation of HCC patients.

				Time points after liver transplantation (Day)
			Pre-LT	Day 0	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7	Day 14
Early-phase plasma miR-1246 level (Log2)	AST (u/l)	Correlation	0.007	0.314	0.259	0.286	0.325	0.249	0.087	0.149	0.142	0.085
		P	0.956	0.013*	0.042*	0.025*	0.010*	0.051	0.499	0.249	0.271	0.662
		Number	62	62	62	61	62	62	62	62	62	29
	ALT (u/l)	Correlation	−0.035	0.378	0.341	0.361	0.377	0.388	0.295	0.303	0.241	0.232
		P value	0.790	0.002**	0.007**	0.004**	0.002**	0.002**	0.020*	0.017*	0.059	0.226
		Number	62	62	62	61	62	62	62	62	62	29
Early-phase hepatic miR-1246 level (Log2)	AST (u/l)	Correlation	−0.093	0.255	0.321	0.287	0.168	0.168	0.126	0.108	0.057	0.043
		P	0.502	0.062	0.018*	0.037*	0.224	0.224	0.362	0.436	0.685	0.843
		Number	54	54	54	53	54	54	54	54	54	24
	ALT (u/l)	Correlation	−0.069	0.261	0.300	0.290	0.245	0.262	0.275	0.244	0.147	0.253
		P	0.620	0.056	0.028*	0.035*	0.075	0.056	0.044*	0.075	0.290	0.233
		Number	54	54	54	53	54	54	54	54	54	24

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01.