Figure 1.
Biogenesis of mature miRNAs and their functional activity.
Figure 2.
Histogram and corresponding Poissonness plot of the sequence lengths (sizes) of human mature miRNA molecules.
Figure 3.
Histogram of sequence lengths of human mature miRNA molecules and four fitted models.
Figure 4.
The sample proportions of nucleotide bases and GC, AU contents.
Figure 5.
Histograms and fitted distributions of the sequence lengths of mature conserved and human – specific miRNAs.
Table 1.
All human mature miRNAs associated with cancer and their functions.
Figure 6.
Distributions of the sequence lengths of human pre-miRNAs.
Figure 7.
Scatter-plot of the average sequence length of pre-miRNAs versus the sequence length of miRNAs: the red line is the linear regression and the blue curve is the quadratic polynomial regression.
Figure 8.
Bar charts of mature miRNAs in the 5′ and 3′ arms of the precursors respectively.
Figure 9.
Scatter-plot of the average numbers of predicted target genes versus the mature miRNA sequence length.
Figure 10.
Histograms of target site counts of the transcripts predicted by miRNAs with the same sequence lengths.