How many unique mature human miRNAs are there?

by Christoph on January 29, 2010

The results of the last poll are in…

Considering that the current miRBase version 14 includes 894 unique mature human miRNAs – how many are there really in us? 74% of our readers believe that there are more than 1000 miRNAs. So, let’s discover the rest…

Dec. 2011 UPDATE: miRBase 18 was released Nov. 2011 and lists 1898 unique mature human miRNAs.

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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

Christoph October 20, 2010 at 3:27 pm

Wow – it’s been just 9 month since this poll and we are already at 1212 (miRBase 16) unique mature miRNA for human…

Christoph April 27, 2011 at 5:50 pm

As of yesterday miRBase (version 17) lists 1733 unique mature miRNA for human…

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