Table 2.

miRNA expression of esophageal cancer samples in published articles and the TCGA

miRNA	Stem‐loop	miRNA expression in article		miRNA expression in TCGA
		Tumor versus noncancerous	P‐value	log2 (fold change)	P‐value
hsa‐miR‐100‐5p	hsa‐mir‐100	Downregulated	0.00002	−1.695	0.04018
hsa‐miR‐133b	hsa‐mir‐133b	Downregulated	0.02949	−2.097	0.00451
hsa‐miR‐155‐5p	hsa‐mir‐155	Upregulated	0.00580	0.906	0.00136
hsa‐miR‐21‐5p	hsa‐mir‐21	Upregulated	0.00020	1.138	0.00008
hsa‐miR‐223‐3p	hsa‐mir‐223	Upregulated	0.00516	0.949	0.00197
hsa‐miR‐424‐5p	hsa‐mir‐424	Upregulated	0.02595	−0.10022	0.09163
hsa‐miR‐375	hsa‐mir‐375	Downregulated	0.00027	−1.82663	0.13509
hsa‐miR‐205‐5p	hsa‐mir‐205	Downregulated	0.00131	1.47158	0.41074
hsa‐miR‐143‐3p	hsa‐mir‐143	Downregulated	0.00280	−1.72661	0.10537
hsa‐miR‐203a‐3p	hsa‐mir‐203a	Downregulated	0.00699	−1.09907	0.60401
hsa‐miR‐192‐5p	hsa‐mir‐192	Downregulated	0.01563	0.27979	0.20536
hsa‐miR‐27b‐3p	hsa‐mir‐27b	Downregulated	0.02094	−0.79117	0.15092
hsa‐miR‐194‐5p	hsa‐mir‐194‐1	Downregulated	0.03672	0.07901	0.29485
hsa‐let‐7c	hsa‐let‐7c	Downregulated	0.04733	−1.24124	0.13345

miRNA expression in this article is tested with the novel RRA method. miRNA expression in TCGA is tested with paired t‐test (two‐sided). The miRNA with bold text is coincident and significant between published article data and TCGA data.