# characteristics.submission description[].text
This project analyzes peripheral blood profiles of controls and patients of 14 different diseases, all collected, measured, and analyzed using exactly the same SoP. Since miRNAs are known to be valuable diagnostic markers we asked whether respective patterns of patients can be detected in peripheral blood samples rather than in biopsies. The project aimed at an impoved understanding of complex profiles rather than single markers. Thus, a high-throughput technique was necessary, profiling all known miRNAs integratively and combining different diseases to achieve a high degree of specificity. A total of 454 samples was screened, containing patients with different cancer types (lung cancer, melanoma, prostate cancer, wilms tumors, tumor of stomach, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer), autoimmune diseases (multiple sclerosis), cardiovascular (acute myocardial infarction), and chronic inflammatory diseases (sarcoidosis, periodontitis, pancreatitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases), as well as healthy control individuals. Please note that each miRNA has been measured in at least seven replicates and the median of the replica has been computed.

# characteristics.submission title[].text
The human Whole miRNOme project version 1