Table 2.

The area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity and specificity values of DE-miRNAs.

	miRNA	AUC	95% CI	P-value	Cut-off	Sensitivity	1-Specificity
Downregulated	miR-885	0.9181	0.8276–1.000	< 0.0001	0.0357	0.8889	0.9474
	miR-92a	0.7427	0.5925–0.8929	= 0.0015	0.814	0.7222	0.6842
	miR-338	0.7339	0.5827–0.8851	= 0.0024	1.7878	0.6111	0.7895
Upregulated	miR-21	0.9825	0.9825–0.9825	< 0.0001	1.6250	0.9444	0.9474
	miR-379	0.9211	0.8328–1.000	< 0.0001	11.5688	1.000	0.7895
W-AV*	miR-379 + miR-21 + miR-885	0.9854	0.9854–0.9854	< 0.0001	0.1654	1.000	0.9444
W-AV-HN**	miR-379 + miR-21 + miR-885	0.8923	0.759–1.000	< 0.0001	0.5528	0.9231	0.8000

*W-AV = weighted average relative quantification of miR-379 + miR-21 + miR-885 in healthy versus MCT samples.

**W-AV-HN = weighted average relative quantification of miR-379 + miR-21 + miR-885 in HN0/1 versus HN2 samples.