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Table 10 miRNA studies in other kidney diseases

From: Genomic approaches in the search for molecular biomarkers in chronic kidney disease

PMID

Author

Year

Sample

Patients

Ethnics

Methodology

Main findings

28667184

Cárdenas-González

2017

Urine

Discovery cohort:

10 LN

10 HC

Confirmation stage:

89 LN

119 HC

Replication stage:

86 LN

37 SLE

30 HC

Caucasian

qRT-PCR

miRNA in situ hybridisation

2402 urinary microRNAs

Downregulation of miR-3201 and miR-1273e (> threefold; p < 0.0001) in LN patients

Association of miR-3201 and miR-1273e expression with endocapillary glomerular inflammation (p < 0.01)

28380212

Domenico

2017

Urine

41 graft dysfunction

8 stable patients

Brazil

qRT-PCR: miR-142-3p

Overexpression of urinary miR-142-3p in the acute tubular necrosis group (p < 0.001) and acute rejection group (p < 0.005) in comparison with stable patients

Trend to higher urinary miR-142-3p expression, in the acute tubular necrosis group, compared with the acute rejection group (p = 0.079)

ROC analysis: AUC was 0.77 (95%CI 0.62–0.92; p = 0.010). The cut-off selected was 2.03 and the resulting parameters were sensitivity = 92%; specificity = 87%; positive predictive value = 90% and a negative predictive value = 87% (p < 0.001)

Blood

Overexpression of urinary miR-142-3p when acute tubular necrosis was compared with stable patients (p < 0.05) and with the acute rejection group (p < 0.05)

No difference was found in the comparison between the stable patients and acute rejection groups (p = 0.921)

ROC analysis: AUC was 0.75 (95%CI 0.56–0.94; p = 0.016). The cut-off selected was 1.59 and the resulting parameters were sensitivity = 75%; specificity = 63%; positive predictive value = 81%, and a negative predictive value = 50% (p < 0.05)

24489795

Ben-Dov

2014

Urine

20 CKD

20 ADPKD

 

barcoded adapter ligation,

Illumina Genome Analyzer II

mir-143(2) members were 2.9-fold higher in urine cells from ADPKD compared to other CKD patients

Expression levels of mir-133b(2) (4.9-fold) and mir-1(4) (4.4-fold) were lower in ADPKD

25197634

Hu Yang-Yang

2014

Serum

60 Nephrolithiasis, 

50 HC

Asian

qRT-PCR:

miR-155

The median levels of serum and urinary levels of miR-155 were significantly higher in nephrolithiasis patients than in controls

eGFR inversely correlated with urinary level of miR-155

22685016

Guan

2012

Urine

12 SLE

10 NecGN

 

qRT-PCR

The degree of proteinuria significantly correlated with the urinary sediment level of miR-339-3P (r = 0.636; p < 0.001), but not other miRNA targets

Urinary sediment miR-221 level correlated with serum C3 level (r = 0.658; p = 0.02).

In the SLE group, urinary sediment miRNA levels did not correlate with the histological activity or chronicity index of the renal biopsy specimen

21987229

Wang

2012

Urine

40 SLE

13 HC

Asian

qRT-PCR: miR-146a and miR-155

Overexpression of urine miR-146a (2.27 [1.20–5.52] versus 0.87 [0.54–1.18]; p = 0.001) and miR-155 (2.28 [1.16–5.13] versus 0.99 [0.84–1.67]; p = 0.001) in SLE

Correlation of eGFR with the level of urinary miR-146a (r = 0.242; p = 0.008), but not miR-155 (r = 0.069; p = 0.456)

20952466

Wang

2010

 

40 SLE

30 HC

Asian

qRT-PCR: miR-146a and miR-155

Downregulation of serum miR-146a and miR-155 levels, and upregulation of urinary level of miR-146a in SLE

eGFR correlated with both serum miR-146a (r = 0.519; p = 0.001) and miR-155 (r = 0.384; p = 0.014)

Serum miR-146a inversely correlated with proteinuria (r = − 0.341; p = 0.031) and the SLE Disease Activity Index (r = − 0.465; p = 0.003)

  1. ADPKD: autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease; C3: complement component 3; CKD: chronic kidney disease; eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate; HC: healthy controls; NecGN: pauci-immune necrotizing glomerulonephritis; LN: lupus nephritis; qRT-PCR: quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction; RNA: ribonucleic acid; ROC: receiver operating characteristic; SLE: systemic lupus erythematous