Human benign adrenocortical tumors miRNome. Human benign adrenocortical tumors miRNome

Small RNAs (<100 bases in length) were purified from total RNA samples using the miRNeasy kit (Qiagen), and multiplexed miRNA libraries were prepared using a previously described protocol and sequenced on a HiSeq 2000 (Illumina). Image analysis, base calling, demultiplexing and conversion of BCL to FASTQ format were carried out using CASAVA 1.8.2 software (Illumina). Adaptor sequences were removed using mirExpress software. Fastq were 3p-adaptor trimmed. The sequences were then aligned on hg19 (GRCh37) human reference genome with STAR (v.2.5.2a), allowing no mismatch with reference. Reads were counted using HTSeq-count (HTSeq v 0.6.1p1 Python package) using “intersection-strict” mode, to count mature miRNA abundance according to miRbase v.20.