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Table 3 Ranking of findings by strength of evidence across platforms

From: Relationships of PBMC microRNA expression, plasma viral load, and CD4+ T-cell count in HIV-1-infected elite suppressors and viremic patients

 

NanoString

TLDA

qPCR

miRNA

p

FC

p

FC

p

FC

miR-31

0.0059

-3.9

0.0026

-10.3

0.0040

-9.2

miR-125b

0.0419

-2.5

0.0066

-4.5

0.0090

-3.6

miR-150

0.0071

-1.9

0.0261

-1.6

0.0003

-1.6

miR-31*

NA

 

0.0043

-10.1

0.0195

-8.5

miR-9

0.0033

1.8

0.0489

4.1

NA

 

miR-181b

0.0092

1.8

NA

 

0.0400

1.6

miR-29a

< 0.1

 

0.0117

-1.5

0.0180

-1.7

let-7g

0.0004

-1.7

0.0028

-1.5

NS

 

miR-16

NS

 

0.0061

1.5

0.0001

1.5

miR-146b-5p

0.0025

-2.6

0.0020

-2.7

NS

 

miR-155

0.0071

1.5

NS

 

0.0690

1.3

miR-34a

< 0.1

 

0.0514

3.6

0.0040

3.1

  1. For NanoString, TaqMan low-density array (TLDA), and quantitative PCR (qPCR), miRNAs are presented according to the estimated strength of evidence for differential regulation between viremic patients and controls: bold (p < 0.05 for each method with which the respective miRNA was measured); italics (p < 0.05 for two of three); and regular font (p < 0.05 for one platform and p < 0.1 for at least one other). Each of the listed miRNAs had relatively high levels of expression across samples: more than two standard deviations above background (NanoString) and/or amplifying before a threshold cycle of 30 by TaqMan assay. Abbreviations: p = p value; FC = mean fold difference from control (positive or negative as indicated); NS (not significant) refers here to p > 0.1; NA: not measured with the indicated method. miR-150 values for NanoString and TLDA are rendered in bold italics to indicate quantile normalization limitations at expression extremes (miR-150 is one of the most abundant miRNAs in PBMC).