Expression of miRNA and Occurrence of Distant Metastases in Patients with Hürthle Cell Carcinoma

Table 4

Relative expression of miRNAs in normal and tumor samples of patients with metastases.

miRNA	Relative expression in normal tissue; Median (25–75%)	Relative expression in tumor tissue; Median (25–75%)	value; (Wilcoxon test for paired samples)
miR-138	5.66 (1.35–42.5)	0.36 (0.12–1.19) []	0.030
miR-183	0.09 (0.02–0.4) []	0.02 (0–0.11) []	0.286
miR-221	2.4 (0.39–11.18)	0.77 (0.2–3) []	0.061
miR-222	10.12 (1.88–22.34) []	3.7 (1.04–27.52) []	0.790
miR-768-3p	7.08 (2.5–28.58) []	1.28 (0.76–2.53) []	0.048
miR-885-5p	0.04 (0.01–1.05) []	0.02 (0.01–0.08) []	0.074

The amount of missing data is presented in brackets .