Figure 1

Volcano plot demonstrating differences in expression levels of miRNAs between AAA and control abdominal aorta based on the microarray study. The log-fold change is plotted against the log odds of differential expression using the R package limma. The miRNAs with significant differences in expression levels between the AAA (n = 5) and control (n = 5) groups (p < 0.05) after Benjamini-Hochberg correction are indicated. Complete lists of nominally significant miRNAs and snoRNAs are shown in Additional file 2: Table S2 and Additional file 3: Table S3, respectively.