Research Article

Genome-Wide Expression of MicroRNAs Is Regulated by DNA Methylation in Hepatocarcinogenesis

Table 1

Fold change of top 25 significant miRNAs* in the discovery set ( pairs).

miRNAsTumorNontumorFold change**P values

miR-196b−8.94 (1.17)−13.38 (1.50)18.00
miR-10b#−10.01 (1.92)−13.16 (1.83)8.94
miR-182−10.83 (1.68)−13.45 (2.72)8.34
miR-183−13.03 (1.31)−15.00 (1.66)8.00
miR-1180−10.25 (1.01)−12.13 (1.16)3.73
miR-18a−7.74 (1.33)−9.10 (0.78)2.57
miR-99a#−10.87 (0.98)−9.27 (0.90)−2.50
miR-30a-3p−5.17 (0.86)−3.84 (0.69)−2.51
miR-381−14.24 (0.85)−12.89 (1.17)−2.55
miR-100−5.24 (0.76)−3.83 (0.88)−2.66
miR-125b−4.97 (1.04)−3.44 (0.88)−2.89
miR-99a−5.57 (0.74)−4.26 (0.83)−3.01
miR-378-002243−4.69 (1.14)−3.03 (0.84)−3.14
miR-130a−9.39 (1.02)−7.72 (1.04)−3.18
miR-422a−8.72 (1.42)−7.04 (1.02)−3.20
let-7c−8.62 (1.08)−6.88 (0.50)−3.32
miR-10a−8.30 (1.37)−6.45 (1.21)−3.58
miR-223−1.79 (1.36)0.18 (0.79)−3.89
miR-424−11.84 (1.07)−9.86 (1.21)−3.94
miR-511−11.34 (1.16)−9.15 (0.68)−4.56
miR-139-5p−7.00 (1.37)−4.76 (0.94)−4.69
miR-199a-3p−5.27 (2.45)−2.68 (1.14)−6.02
miR-486−8.81 (1.10)−6.21 (1.90)−6.06
miR-378-000567−11.65 (2.30)−8.89 (2.23)−6.82
miR-144#−9.98 (1.66)−7.06 (1.49)−7.52

False discovery rate (FRD) <0.05; “miR-” refers to the mature miRNA; **fold change >0 indicates miRNAs overexpression, <0 indicates miRNAs downexpression; not included in the Infinium Methylation 450K assay; the miRNA following # indicates a miRNA expressed at low levels relative to the same miRNA without #, which shares a pre-miRNA hairpin.