And the levels of miR-940, miR-15a, miR-16 and IL-23 expression in the PTC tissues were associated with some clinical characteristics of PTC, including bilateral tumor, multicentricity, extrallyroidal invasion, cervical lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis and clinical advanced stages (III/IV).
Two hundred and forty-eight miRNAs and 3,631 genes were found to be significantly deregulated (gene, P<0.05; miRNA, P<0.01) in PTC tissues when compared with their matching normal thyroid tissues. hsa-miR-206 (target gene, MET), hsa-miR-299-3p (target gene, ITGAV), hsa-miR-101 (target gene, ITGA3), hsa-miR-103 (target gene, ITGA2), hsa-miR‑222 (target genes, KIT and AXIN2), hsa-miR-15a (target genes, AXIN2 and FOXO1) and hsa-mir-221 (target gene, KIT) were identified.