Table 3. Eight candidate microRNAs displaying higher levels in HCC cases with positive AFB1 than controls with positive AFB1 in the discovery cohort.

	miRNA	Average Ct value		CV		Fold Change
No.		Controls	Cases	Controls	Cases
01	miR-7-2-3p	28.62	22.03	0.0171	0.0236	10.71
02	miR-4651	28.12	12.96	0.0238	0.0694	4071.41
03	miR-127-3p	26.16	21.62	0.0317	0.0167	10.31
04	miR-192-5p	28.99	17.57	0.0328	0.0102	302.61
05	miR-382-5p	28.91	21.91	0.0090	0.0050	14.19
06	miR-10b-5p	28.77	17.77	0.0115	0.0523	227.75
07	miR-532-3p	26.66	22.83	0.0154	0.0197	3.57
08	miR-16-5p	25.67	20.32	0.0105	0.0305	4.54

Abbreviations: HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma, AFB1, aflatoxin B1; CV, coefficient of variation.