Research Article

Role of Circulating miRNAs as Biomarkers in Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Possible Relevance of miR-23a

Table 3

RT-PCR validation of differentially expressed miRNAs in IPAH patients compared to healthy volunteers (HV).

miRNA IDMicroarray fold changeRT-PCR fold change

miR-1-2 8.2512.54
miR-30c-2−8.00−5.46
miR-99a−8.00−7.25
miR-1957 7.5010.89
miR-20a 3.15 2.25
miR-145 3.21 3.59
miR-27a 3.12 6.53
miR-328−3.15−1.98
miR-23a 3.09 5.59
miR-23b 4.27 6.37
miR-191 5.2510.27
miR-130 7.50 8.59
miR-199a−8.00−12.59
miR-330−8.00−5.64
miR-204 −4.67−3.89