Comprehensive analysis of microRNAs in breast cancer

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Categories of sequence reads in the 2 breast libraries.

Library	Normal	Tumor
# clean reads	2 785 848	38 335 412
% miRNA reads	75.24%	84.79%
# detected pre-miRNAs	455	689
# detected miRNAs	631	906
# detected miRNAs at opposite arm	54	150
% miRNA reads with 3' end modification	17.65%	12.45%

According to miRBase 17 annotation, there are 1424 human pre-miRNAs, encoding 1733 mature miRNAs. These pre-miRNAs and mature miRNAs result in 1902 pairs of pre-miRNA/miRNA.

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