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Published in final edited form as: J Affect Disord. 2018 Jul 24;240:146–154. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.07.075

Table 1:

miRNAs as Epigenetic Modifier in MDD-Suicide Brain

Study # Brain areas Participating miRNAs Target Genes References
1 Dorsolateral
prefrontal cortex
miR-142-5p, miR-33a, miR-137, miR-489, miR-148b,
miR-101, miR-324-5p, miR-301a, miR-146a, miR-335,
miR-494, miR-20b, miR-376a*, miR-190, miR-155, miR-
660, miR-552, miR-453, miR-130a, miR-27a, miR-497,
miR-10a, miR-20a, miR-142-3p
UBE2D1 and UBE2W,
CAMK2G, AKAP1, SMAD5,
MITF, BACH2, MYCN,
GABRA4, and CACNA1C
Smalheiser et al., 2012
2 Frontal cortex miR-185 TrkB.T1 Maussion et al., 2012
3 Prefrontal cortex miR-139-5p, miR-320c, miR-34c-5p SSAT1, SMOX Lopez et al., 2014a
4 Prefrontal cortex miR-1202 GRM4 Lopez et al., 2014b
5 Basolateral
amygdala
miR-511 GFR1 Maheu et al., 2015
7 Edinger-Westphal
nucleus (EWcp) of
rostroventral
midbrain area
miR-326 UCN1 Aschrafi et al., 2016
8 Prefrontal cortex miR-218 Netrin-1 guidance cue
receptor gene, deleted in
colorectal cancer (DCC)
Torres-Berrio et al., 2017
9 Ventral prefrontal
cortex
miR-146a-5p, miR-146b-5p, miR-425-3p, miR-24-3p MAPK/WNT signaling
pathway
Lopez et al., 2017
10 Locus coeruleus miR-17-5p, miR-20b-5p, miR-106a-5p, miR-330-3p, miR-
409-5p, miR-541-3p, miR-582-5p, miR-890, let-7g-3p,
miR-99b-3p, miR-550-5p, miR-1179
RELN, GSK-3β, MAOA,
CHRM1, PLCB1 and GRIK1
Roy et al., 2017a
11 Prefrontal cortex miR-19a-3p TNF-α Wang et al., 2018