Table 1. Prediction results of miRNAs targeting the GDF15 3′ UTR SNP rs1054564.

Gene	SNP	Allele	miRNA	Conserveda	mirSVRb	Energyc	Scored	Seed region
GDF15	rs1054564	G	hsa-miR-873-5p	yes	-0.1265	-28.4	97	no
		C				-26.0
		G	hsa-miR-1233-3p	no	-0.0096	-27.1	89	yes
		C				-21.4

^aConservation information among vertebrates from microRNA.org

^bmirSVR score of binding site from microRNA.org

^cFree energy of miRNA–mRNA duplex from RNAhybird

^dPredicted score of miRNA–mRNA binding by TargetScan. The higher the score the more stable the binding.