Differential microRNA profiling of the Marshallese population in Arkansas reveals a higher association with chronic diseases

• Gohar Azhar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gohar Azhar, Ambika Verma

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Azhargohar@uams.edu

  Affiliation Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-5189

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• Ambika Verma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gohar Azhar, Ambika Verma

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Pankaj Patyal,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Wei Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Shakshi Sharma,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Patricia E. Savary,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Sheldon Riklon,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Springdale, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Philmar Mendoza Kabua,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Springdale, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Pearl A. McElfish,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Springdale, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4033-6241

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• Jeanne Y. Wei

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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