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We got miRNA targets from Database TargetScan, miRanda, TarBase, miRTarBase, miR2Disease, miRecords, miRWalk. We treated these data as the flow chart below to get the Total miRNA targets.
We got the pathway genes from the CGAP Biocarta database.
We downloaded the expression data from TCGA database(version 2016_01_28). We downloaded the level 3 miRNA isform data to get the mature miRNA expression. We downloaded the level 3 gene expression data. Then we computed the average expression of each cancer and normal samples.