Identification and Functional
Analysis of Circular RNAs in Ankylosing Spondylitis PatientPeripheral Blood
Mononuclear Cells
Dan Huang1,2, Jian Liu1,2, Yuan
Wang1,2, Lei Wan1,2, Yanyan
Fang1, Xiang Ding1, Wandong
Zhang1
1Department
of Rheumatology, First Affiliated
Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, Anhui Province,
China
2Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese
Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Application Foundation Research
and Development, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
Correspondence to: Jian Liu, Department of Rheumatology, First
Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 117 meishan
road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, P.R.China
E-mail: liujianahzy@126.com
Keywords: Circular RNAs, Ankylosing spondylitis (AS),
High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), CircRNA-related
competing endogenous RNAs
(ceRNA)