Evaluation of Serum MicroRNAs (miR-9-5p, miR-17-5p, and miR-148a-3p) as Potential Biomarkers of Breast Cancer

Table 4

Distribution of the levels of the three types of microRNAs by subgroups.

	miR-9-5p				miR-17-5p				miR-148a-3p
	Cases	Controls			Cases	Controls			Cases	Controls
Menopause status
Premenopause			0.587	0.502			0.844	0.110			0.092	0.149
Postmenopause			0.001				0.307				0.002
ER status
+			0.035	0.895			0.883	0.282			<0.001	0.121
-			0.008				0.130				0.089
PR status
+			0.049	0.944			0.297	0.380			0.024	0.224
-			0.002				0.756				0.001
HER2 status
+			0.001	0.049			0.659	0.797			0.002	0.481
-			0.985				0.093				0.035

Abbreviations: ER: estrogen receptor; HER2: human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; PR: progesterone receptor; : value compared with controls; : value compared among subgroups of cases.