Fig. 1

miRNA expression in melanoma and related cell types. Box-plots of miRNA expression are shown for candidate miRNAs (OSUMC microarrays). The y axis displays the quantiles normalized expression levels (log 2 scale); the different cell types are aligned on the x axis. The first three categories on the left are normal controls: epidermis (EP), cultured keratinocytes (KC) and cultured melanocytes (MC). The melanoma subgroups follow, in an order related to cancer progression: primary tumors (PR), melanoma metastasis (ME), low passage number (MT) and high passage number (CL) metastatic melanoma cell lines