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)