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. 2018 May 29;19:408. doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-4785-8

Table 3.

Percentage of biotype counts in the various bodily fluids

Biotype Blood Leukocytes Plasma Serum Saliva Cell-Free Saliva Urine Cell-Free Urine
Ave SDEV Ave SDEV Ave SDEV Ave SDEV Ave SDEV Ave SDEV Ave SDEV Ave SDEV
aMillion reads mapped to biotypes 12.8 1.9 2.6 0.1 9.7 6.2 5.4 1.6 1.3 0.8 1.3 0.5 8.0 5.9 8.7 7.6
miRNA 86.6 12.3 29.9 3.3 18.8 14.1 18.1 6.4 12.0 8.3 23.6 7.6 5.3 2.2 6.8 2.9
tRNA 2.1 0.7 18.4 4.0 5.8 2.5 39.7 16.9 46.0 39.2 39.0 11.6 91.3 77.5 91.3 90.3
piRNA 1.9 0.8 5.8 0.9 8.0 5.8 1.9 0.5 0.8 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2
misc_RNA 7.7 1.5 12.7 2.6 58.0 39.4 35.1 10.3 4.6 2.6 7.1 2.0 1.7 1.7 1.1 0.8
protein_coding 0.4 0.1 5.8 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.2 6.6 3.9 9.2 7.0 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1
Mt_rRNA 0.0 0.0 1.9 0.4 0.9 0.7 0.9 0.4 6.8 4.3 2.1 1.8 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0
Mt_tRNA 0.1 0.0 0.7 0.1 7.7 5.1 3.1 1.3 5.5 2.4 1.2 1.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0
snRNA 0.2 0.0 4.9 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 5.2 5.4 11.9 11.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
snoRNA 0.3 0.0 8.7 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 4.1 2.6 1.3 1.4 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
lincRNA 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Others 0.6 0.1 10.5 1.0 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.1 7.6 4.8 3.7 2.5 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1

aNumber of million reads mapped to biotypes