Table 2 Number of detected bovine microRNA genetic variants of interest, according to their locations.

From: In silico identification of variations in microRNAs with a potential impact on dairy traits using whole ruminant genome SNP datasets

Variant location

Number of variants/number of different microRNAs

Variants with frequency ≥ 10%/number of different microRNAs

Number of variants in CpG islands/number of different microRNAs

Seed region

3/3

0

0

Mature microRNA

8/7

1/1

0

microRNA precursor

26/21

8/8

4/4

 ± 50 bp

69/38

33/20

17/8

 ± 100 bp

140/56

66/33

27/10

 ± 500 bp

573/77

291/61

50/14

 ± 1000 bp

1044/80

597/78

74/24

  1. The number of microRNAs presenting at least 1 variant was mentioned, as well as the number of variants with a frequency ≥ 0.10 and those located in CpG islands.