The datasets of miRNAs microarray in liver cancer and normal control were downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus. Then the SOAP analysis was performed to identify the differentially expressed miRNAs.
A total of 221 differentially expressed miRNAs were found. Five of them (including hsa-miR-15b, hsa-miR-1975, hsa-miR-199a-3p, hsa-miR-199b-3p and hsa-miR-421) were determined by t-test and may be involved in the pathogenesis of liver cancer.
There differentially expressed miRNAs may be potential molecular markers for liver cancer screening.