Table 1. Summary of the most frequently mapping putative plant miRNAs in the Liu et al. analysis of datasets from Yuan et al..

Here, data from only 190 of 192 plasma samples were included, since all but the excluded 2 samples were successfully sequenced twice. miRNA inclusion criteria were: 1) Three total mapped reads according to Liu et al.’s data in at least 10% of the samples and 2) discoverable putative mature sequence through miRBase, miRMaid, or miRNEST 2.0. An “estimated median rpm” value was calculated based on median total counts, average reads, and the midoint of the reported mapping percentage range. miRNAs with perfect human matches are in red. Note that only MIR2910 consistently exceeds the rpm threshold set by Yuan et al..

Putative miRNA	Samples w/ reads ≥3	Average total counts	Median total counts	Max	Est. median rpm in avg sample
peu-MIR2910	190	1143.4	1072.5	2020	180.6
peu-MIR2916	190	119.7	115	315	19.4
tae-MIR2005	178	8.7	9	23	1.5
peu-MIR2914	169	14.3	9	348	1.5
tae-MIR2018	167	5.9	6	14	1.0
ath-MIRf10482-akr	161	7.3	6	29	1.0
ppt-MIR896	147	4.6	4	15	0.7
ptc-MIRf12412-akr	47	2.7	2	18	0.3
peu-MIR2911	42	2.6	2	10	0.3
ppt-MIR894	39	2.3	2	18	0.3
ptc-MIRf12524-akr	28	1.8	1	5	0.2