skeletal muscle biopsies; spinal cord; frontal cortex
iPSC-derived motor neurons
genetically engineered animal model
not specified
RNA-seq; RNase R Treatment; RT-qPCR; divergent primers PCR; Clinical Sample Validation; In Vivo Animal Model; Bioinformatics Analysis
downregulated in ALS muscle and spinal cord; increased in ALS frontal cortex
hsa_circ_0000944 is downregulated in ALS skeletal muscle along with decreased host-gene mRNA CCDC9 and is reduced in ALS spinal cord, but increased in ALS frontal cortex; mechanism was not determined.
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Transcriptomic analysis of human ALS skeletal muscle reveals a disease-specific pattern of dysregulated circRNAs.
combined biological and clinical study