Association between fetal sex and maternal plasma microRNA responses to prenatal alcohol exposure: evidence from a birth outcome-stratified cohort

Table 3 Numbers of significantly altered male and female fetal sex-specific miRNAs in each maternal alcohol exposure group, relative to the UE control group

Trimester	Sex-specific at baseline	Male-specific		Female-specific
Trimester	Sex-specific at baseline	HEa	HEua	HEa	HEua
2nd	11	22 (2)	4 (0)	5 (2)	20 (2)
3rd	10	24 (5)	9 (2)	5 (0)	8 (2)

Number of alcohol-sensitive fetal sex-specific maternal miRNAs as identified by bootstrap analysis of effect size. Numbers in brackets indicate the number of miRNAs showing sex specificity at baseline

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