Elevated Expression of the Long Noncoding RNA IFNG-AS1 in the Peripheral Blood from Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Figure 1

Increased expression of IFNG-AS1 correlates with the clinical disease severity in the RA patients. (a) The transcript levels of IFNG-AS1 in the PBMCs from the RA patients and the healthy controls were detected by qRT-PCR. The correlations between the transcript level of IFNG-AS1 and the concentration of RF (b), the ESR (c), and the CRP level (d) in the RA patients are shown. (e) The relative expression of IFNG-AS1 in the PBMCs from the anti-CCP Ab- and anti-CCP-Ab+ RA patients was determined. Each data point represents an individual subject, and the horizontal lines show the mean. ; ; .

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