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How to perform correlation between unmatched miRNA and mRNA data?

How can we perform correlation analysis between unmatched microRNA and mRNA expression data?

Thanks in advance.

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I think you should explain what you mean with 'unmatched', you can only calculate correlation on matching samples.

Thanks Gian for your reply.

You are right that we can only calculate correlation on matching data but in my case data is like following:

miRNA = 4 NormalSamples - 6 TumorSamples

mRNA_Gene = 4 NormalSamples - 5 TumorSamples

I want to calculate the inverse effect of miRNA on mRNA gene.

I have also asked similar sort of question with more detail but didn't got any reply yet.

Correlation of unmatched microRNA and mRNA expression data.

Thanks :)

First you need to exclude the samples that are not in both datasets and then you can calculate the correlation on the overlapping subset. Since you are using R you can merge the two matrix and then calculate Spearman correlation between all miRNAs and mRNA

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