Marcinkowska et al. BMC Genomics 2011, 12:183 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/12/183 Additional file 5: miRNAs located in chromosomal regions implicated in microdeletion/microduplication syndromes. Excel table containing list of miRNAs located in chromosomal regions implicated in microdeletion/microduplication syndromes (DECYPHER v5.0 [50]). Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education [N N302 278937, N N302 260938]. The authors have declared no conflict of interest. Author details 1Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland. 2Computational Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. Authors’ contributions MM performed the computational analysis, literature screening, participated in the manuscript preparation. MS participated in the computational analysis (sequence conservation analysis) and the manuscript preparation. 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