A GeneChip microRNA 4.0 array (Thermo Fisher Scientific) containing probes representing 2588 miRNAs (miRBase release 21; www.mirbase.org accessed on 24 August 2018) was performed according to the protocol described by Felix F. Tainara [55 (link)]. The data analysis was executed using Expression Console software v.4.0.2 (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA) for data summarization, normalization, and quality control. To identify significantly deregulated miRNAs, the following parameters were used in each tumor compared to normal tissues: fold change (FC) ≥ 2, p-value < 0.0001 and a false discovery rate (FDR) < 0.05 were used to compare each tumor to normal tissues.
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