The expression level of miR-9 was obtained using miRCURY LNATM Universal RT microRNA PCR, Exilent SYBR® Green master mix (Qiagen). Quantitative PCR (qPCR) amplifications were performed in triplicate using the primers for hsa-miR-9-5p (YP00204513 - Qiagen) and hsa-SNORD49A (Qiagen) [44 (link)] on a LightCycler 480 (Roche Berlin, Germany). The quantification cycle (Cq) was used to calculate the relative miR-9 expression using normalization to hsa-SNORD49A (ΔCq).
miR-9 expression was compared between patients from the Low and High lamin A group, or between EMA− and EMA+ carcinoma cells, corresponding to lamin A− and lamin A+ carcinoma cells, respectively (ΔΔCq). miR-9 relative expression (fold change (Fc)) was calculated by the 2−ΔΔCq method [36 (link)]. miR-9 was considered as upregulated if the fold change was ≥ 2 and down-regulated if the fold change was ≤ 0.5.