The potential role of miR-27a and miR-320a in metabolic syndrome in obese Egyptian females

Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Table 3 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (r) of microRNA 27-a and microRNA 320-a with established clinical variables where “r” is considered significant at P ≤ 0.0001

	*Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (r) of miR-27a*	*Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (r) of miR-320a*
BMI	0.565**	−0.689**
WC	0.567**	−0.685**
WHR	0.564**	−0.491*
FBG	0.605**	−0.620**
Serum insulin	0.519**	−0.440*
HOMA-IR	0.604**	−0.568**
TG	0.676**	−0.617**
HDL-C	−0.595**	0.619**