skeletal muscle biopsies; spinal cord
iPSC-derived motor neurons
genetically engineered animal model
not specified
RNA-seq; RNase R Treatment; RT-qPCR; divergent primers PCR; Clinical Sample Validation; Bioinformatics Analysis
reduced in ALS muscle and spinal cord; increased in ALS frontal cortex
hsa_circ_0000247 is selectively downregulated in ALS skeletal muscle while MCU mRNA is not changed; it is decreased in ALS spinal cord and increased in ALS frontal cortex (late stage). No mechanism was described.
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Transcriptomic analysis of human ALS skeletal muscle reveals a disease-specific pattern of dysregulated circRNAs.
combined biological and clinical study