Altered microRNA expression in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia

Table 3 Potential miRNA targets^† that are differentially expressed in infertile testis^††

miRNA			Potential miRNA targets
miRNA name	Fold change^†††	GenBank	Gene name	Fold change^†††
hsa-miR-1	-0.27	U14394	Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 3 (TIMP3)	+1.77
hsa-miR-181a	-0.21	U14394
hsa-miR-221	-0.5	U14394
hsa-miR-9*	-0.1	U14394
hsa-miR-145	-0.13	Z46629	SRY (sex determining region Y)-box 9 (SOX9)	+1.41
hsa-miR-383	-0.39	AF078078	Growth arrest and DNA-damage-inducible, gamma (GADD45G)	+1.57

^†Based on the intersections of at least two of four widely used target prediction programs.
^††Based on RNA expression profile dataset from Rockett et al. (2004) [24].
^†††Infertile vs. control.

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