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Table 2 MiRNA recovery by kit, presented as average Cq ± SD (n = 10)

From: Optimized microRNA purification from TRIzol-treated plasma

RNA Target

Ambion miR vana miRNA Isolation Kit

Exiqon RNA Isolation Kit -Biofluids

QIAGEN RNeasy Mini Kit

QIAGEN miRNeasy Mini Kit

Zymo Direct-zol RNA MiniPrep Kit

UniSp2

28.6 ± 0.3

24.9 ± 0.4

21.8 ± 0.4

21.5 ± 0.3

23.7 ± 0.5

UniSp4

34.8 ± 0.9

31.9 ± 0.6

28.9 ± 0.8

28.7 ± 0.8

30.9 ± 0.4

UniSp5

33.7 ± 6.0(3)

36.4 ± 0.4(7)

34.7 ± 1.4

34.1 ± 2.0

38.3 ± 3.6(8)

hsa-miR-451a

30.6 ± 0.4

26.8 ± 0.5

23.7 ± 0.3

23.6 ± 0.4

25.2 ± 0.5

hsa-miR-16-5p

31.3 ± 0.4

27.6 ± 0.5

24.7 ± 0.4

24.8 ± 0.5

26.6 ± 0.5

hsa-miR-93-5p

34.6 ± 0.5

31.0 ± 0.5

28.4 ± 0.4

28.5 ± 0.4

30.3 ± 0.5

hsa-miR-23a-3p

35.8 ± 0.6

31.9 ± 0.4

29.6 ± 0.4

29.5 ± 0.5

31.3 ± 0.6

hsa-miR-423-3p

40.6 ± 4.7(4)

33.1 ± 0.8

31.1 ± 0.4

31.1 ± 0.4

33.2 ± 0.4

hsa-miR-103a-3p

38.9 ± 1.5(8)

33.9 ± 0.5

31.5 ± 0.3

31.5 ± 0.5

32.2 ± 1.2

hsa-miR-205-5p

NA(0)

36.5 ± 0.5(9)

35.5 ± 0.6

35.6 ± 0.6

38.1 ± 1.9

  1. Numbers in parentheses represent numbers of samples where miRNA was recovered, if less than 10 of 10 technical replicates. These entries are in bold for convenience.