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. 2020 Sep 15;12(9):5940–5954.

Table 2.

Correlation of lnc-MALAT1/miR-125b with FOXQ1, PTGS2 or CDK5

Items Genes MiR-125b FOXQ1 PTGS2 CDK5




P value r P value r P value r P value r
AD patients
    CSF samples (N = 50) Lnc-MALAT1 < 0.001 -0.513 0.024 0.320 < 0.001 -0.525 0.042 -0.289
MiR-125b - - 0.001 -0.470 0.001 0.472 0.001 0.473
    Plasma samples (N = 120) Lnc-MALAT1 < 0.001 -0.367 < 0.001 0.451 0.002 -0.282 0.099 -0.151
MiR-125b - - < 0.001 -0.340 0.001 0.307 0.026 0.203
PD patients
    CSF samples (N = 50) Lnc-MALAT1 0.003 -0.416 0.183 0.191 0.001 -0.446 0.112 -0.228
MiR-125b - - 0.425 -0.115 < 0.001 0.529 0.155 0.204
    Plasma samples (N = 120) Lnc-MALAT1 < 0.001 -0.358 0.205 0.116 0.558 -0.054 0.773 -0.027
MiR-125b - - 0.120 -0.143 0.100 0.151 0.002 0.283
Ctrls
    CSF samples (N = 50) Lnc-MALAT1 0.003 -0.408 0.020 0.328 0.020 -0.328 0.056 -0.272
MiR-125b - - 0.016 -0.339 0.109 0.229 0.019 0.330
    Plasma samples (N = 120) Lnc-MALAT1 0.006 -0.249 0.058 0.173 0.013 -0.225 0.085 -0.158
MiR-125b - - 0.002 -0.284 0.681 0.038 0.076 0.163

Correlation was determined by Spearman’s rank correlation test. FOXQ1, forkhead box Q1; PTGS2, prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2; CDK5, cyclin dependent kinase 5; Ctrls, controls; AD, Alzheimer’s disease; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; Lnc-MALAT1, long noncoding RNA metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1; miR-125b, microRNA 125b; PD, Parkinson’s disease.