BRCA1 and breast neoplasm: It could be preliminary observed that only 4 (miR-let7i_star, miR-122, miR-573 and miR-578) out of 16 deregulated miRNAs were decreased in BRCA1/2-related breast tumors, whereas all others were found to be up-regulated, as confirmed by the mean fluorescence values reported in Table 1.