Study | Technique used | Sample type | Sample size | Cut off value | No of miRNAs analysed |
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Liu et al. 2012 [23] | Microarray | Infertile and Normozoospermic fertile (NF) (semen) | 86 infertile and 86 NF | > 1.5 or < 0.66 | 2844 miRNAs |
Halima et al. 2013 [24] | Microarray | Oligoasthenozoospermia (OA), A (asthenozoospermia) and NF (sperm) | 9 OA, 9A and 9 NF | > 1.5 or < 0.66 | 1205 miRNAs |
Abhari et al. 2014 [25] | qRT-PCR | Oligozoospermia (O) and NF (sperm) | 43 O and 43 NF | - | 2 miRNAs |
Salas-Huetos et al. 2015 [26] | qRT-PCR | O, A, teretozoospermia (T) and NF (sperm) | 10 O, 10 A, 10 T and 10 NF | - | 736 miRNAs |
Muñoz et al. 2015 [27] | qRT-PCR | O and NF (sperm) | 9 O and 7 NF | - | 23 miRNAs |
Salas-Huetos et al. 2016 [28] | qRT-PCR | Normozoospermic infertile (NI) and NF (sperm) | 8 NI and 8NF | - | 736 miRNAs |
Huan et al. 2017 [29] | qRT-PCR | O, A, OA and NF (semen) | 36 O, 36 A, 36 OA and 36 NF | - | 6 miRNAs |
Mokánszki et al. 2020 [30] | qRT-PCR | O, A and NF (sperm) | 10 O, 10 A and 10 NF | - | 11 miRNAs |