Fig. 5

a Expression of novel miRNAs in blood versus tissue. The green miRNAs are specific for blood, the orange miRNAs for tissue, and the blue miRNAs were detected in both specimens. b Bar plot for two different miRNAs. The first miRNA novel-mir-36616 in blue is detected only in the brain tissue and not in the heart tissue or blood, the -3p form is one order of magnitude less expressed compared to the -5p mature form. The second miRNA novel-mir-31007 is expressed in blood and not in tissue, here, the -3p form is more than an order of magnitude more abundant compared to the -5p form