Table 1.

Functional characterization of the deregulated miRNAs in cataract

Name	Up or down regulation	Target gene	Reference
miR-34a	Up	Smad7	57
miR-15a-5p	Up	bcl-2, mcl-1	44
miR-15a-3p	Up	bcl-2, mcl-1	44
miR-16-1-5p	Up	bcl-2, mcl-1	44
Let-7	Up		37
MiR-125b	Down	p53	65
miR-16-1-3p	Down		44