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Chunmei Cui1, Bitao Zhong1, Rui Fan1
1Department of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Noncoding RNA Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Vascular Homeostasis and Remodeling, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Rd, Beijing 100191, China.
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of important small non-coding RNAs with critical molecular functions in almost all biological processes, and thus, they play important roles in disease diagnosis and therapy. Human MicroRNA Disease Database (HMDD) represents an important and comprehensive resource for biomedical researchers in miRNA-related medicine. Here, we introduce HMDD v4.0, which curates 53530 miRNA-disease association entries from literatures. In comparison to HMDD v3.0 released five years ago, HMDD v4.0 contains 1.5 times more entries. In addition, some new categories have been curated, including exosomal miRNAs implicated in diseases, virus-encoded miRNAs involved in human diseases, and entries containing miRNA-circRNA interactions. We also curated sex-biased miRNAs in diseases. Furthermore, in a case study, disease similarity analysis successfully revealed that sex-biased miRNAs related to developmental anomalies are associated with a number of human diseases with sex bias. HMDD can be freely visited at http://www.cuilab.cn/hmdd.
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