reported to be under genetic control [23]. We note that the relatively high FDR adjusted p-values (up to 0.33 in abdominal adipose tissue, and up to 0.6 in gluteal adipose tissue) ( Table 1 , Table 2 ) in the eQTL analysis in the primary study are in line with eQTL results presented in [20], where a FDR level of 0.5 was reported. Comparing the set of cis miRNA eQTL candidates in the primary study with the 12 cis miRNA eQTL reported in human fibroblasts [20], shows that in these two studies the detected miRNA eQTLs were not common. This may suggest that miRNAs expression is tissue-type specific, which our results also indicate when comparing miRNA expression between adipose tissue depots.
