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Table 1 Summary of miRNA profiling studies in human sperm

From: Qualitative and quantitative assessment of sperm miRNAs identifies hsa-miR-9-3p, hsa-miR-30b-5p and hsa-miR-122-5p as potential biomarkers of male infertility and sperm quality

Study

Technique used

Sample type

Sample size

Cut off value

No of miRNAs analysed

Liu et al. 2012 [23]

Microarray

Infertile and Normozoospermic fertile (NF) (semen)

86 infertile and 86 NF

 > 1.5 or < 0.66

2844 miRNAs

Halima et al. 2013 [24]

Microarray

Oligoasthenozoospermia (OA), A (asthenozoospermia) and NF (sperm)

9 OA, 9A and 9 NF

 > 1.5 or < 0.66

1205 miRNAs

Abhari et al. 2014 [25]

qRT-PCR

Oligozoospermia (O) and NF (sperm)

43 O and 43 NF

-

2 miRNAs

Salas-Huetos et al. 2015 [26]

qRT-PCR

O, A, teretozoospermia (T) and NF (sperm)

10 O, 10 A, 10 T and 10 NF

-

736 miRNAs

Muñoz et al. 2015 [27]

qRT-PCR

O and NF (sperm)

9 O and 7 NF

-

23 miRNAs

Salas-Huetos et al. 2016 [28]

qRT-PCR

Normozoospermic infertile (NI) and NF (sperm)

8 NI and 8NF

-

736 miRNAs

Huan et al. 2017 [29]

qRT-PCR

O, A, OA and NF (semen)

36 O, 36 A, 36 OA and 36 NF

-

6 miRNAs

Mokánszki et al. 2020 [30]

qRT-PCR

O, A and NF (sperm)

10 O, 10 A and 10 NF

-

11 miRNAs