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Published in final edited form as: J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2021 Feb 18;31(5):900–912. doi: 10.1038/s41370-021-00306-8

Table 5.

Parameter estimates of statistically significant miRNAs from full miRNA expression panel associated with employment duration and adjusted for structure fire-hours or structure fire-runs and time since most recent structure firea,b,c.

miRNA Model with structure fire-hours
Model with structure fire-runs
Employment duration
Structure fire-hours
Most recent structure fire
R 2 Employment duration
Structure-fire- runs
Most recent structure fire
R 2
β p value β p value β p value β p value β p value β p value
hsa-miR-494–3p −0.735 <0.001 −0.392 0.025 −2.229 <0.001 0.778 −0.615 <0.001 −0.504 0.003 −2.247 <0.001 0.794
hsa-miR-422a −0.439 <0.001 0.297 0.071 −1.321 <0.001 0.795 −0.370 <0.001 0.349 0.003 −1.346 <0.001 0.774
hsa-miR-26a-5p −0.394 <0.001 0.272 0.120 0.403 <0.001 0.535 −0.403 <0.001 0.263 0.009 0.405 <0.001 0.756
hsa-miR-92a-3p −0.366 <0.001 0.259 0.005 1.295 <0.001 0.618 −0.345 <0.001 −0.312 0.247 1.329 <0.001 0.611
hsa-let-7f-5p −0.324 <0.001 0.243 0.007 0.388 0.008 0.443
hsa-miR-548a-3p 0.382 <0.001 0.259 0.103 0.398 0.017 0.480
hsa-miR-556–3p 0.396 <0.001 0.283 0.022 0.408 <0.001 0.407 0.424 <0.001 0.299 0.077 0.548 <0.001 0.408
hsa-miR-548ad-3p 0.469 <0.001 0.314 0.009 −1.960 0.008 0.426 0.471 <0.001 −0.403 0.002 −1.948 0.009 0.426
hsa-miR-525–3p 0.519 <0.001 −0.325 0.136 0.552 <0.001 0.568 0.529 <0.001 −0.338 0.118 −0.623 <0.001 0.570

Models also adjusted for age, BMI, ethnicity, batch effects, and Bonferroni correction. Associations significant after Bonferroni correction are in bolded text.

β Log2FC, FC fold-change.

a

For employment duration, effect is for a 6 month increase. For fire-hours, effect is for a 10 h increase. For fire-runs, effect is for a 10 fire increase.

b

Based on the highest Akaike information criteria (AIC), the best measure of time since most recent fire was selected (continuous, split at median value, split at tertile values, or split at quartile values). Hsa-miR-26a-5p, hsa-miR-548a-3p, hsa-miR-556–3p and hsa-let-7f-5p used time split at the median. Hsa-miR-494–3p, hsa-miR-422a, hsa-miR-92a-3p and hsa-miR-548ad-3p used time split at quantiles. Hsa-miR-525–3p used time split at the median for the model adjusted for structure fire-hours and time split at tertiles for the model adjusted for structure fire-runs.

c

An absolute FC >1.25 was applied to statistically significant miRNAs associated with length of service presented here.