Data Processing :
The presence of miRNA was determined based on a corresponding microarray signal of greater than [the mean + 2 × standard deviation] of the negative controls signal, of which the top and bottom ranked ones by signal intensity were removed. Once a miRNA was considered present, the mean signal of the negative controls of which the top and bottom 5% ranked by signal intensity were removed was subtracted from the miRNA signal. When the signal value was negative (or undetected) after background subtraction, the value was replaced by 0.1 on a base 2 logarithm scale.