Profiling of circRNA expression in 100 human OFC postmortem brain (34 SCZ, 32 BD, and 34 Controls) was performed with the Arraystar Human Circular RNA Microarray (Arraystar Inc., Rockville, MD) per the manufacturer’s instructions with 13,617 probes designed to detect the unique circRNA splice junction based on numerous RNA-sequencing circRNA data [16 (link), 19 (link), 22 (link), 23 (link), 50 (link), 51 (link)]. Briefly 800 ng of total RNA previously quantified and quality verified (see above) were treated with an aggressive RnaseR treatment (3 h at 37 °C of ribonuclease R, 20 U/μL, Epicentre, Madison WI) to digest linear RNAs and enrich for circRNA expression. The enriched for circRNAs RNA was then amplified and transcribed into fluorescent cRNA via random primers according to the Arraystar Super RNA Labelling protocol (Arraystar Inc.). The labeled circRNAs were then hybridized onto the Arraystar Human Circular RNA arrays (8 × 15 K, Arraystar, Inc.) and incubated for 17 h at 65 °C in an Agilent hybridization oven (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA). Slides were then washed and scanned with the Agilent Scanner G2505C (Agilent Technologies). Differentially altered circRNAs as shown in Supplementary Tables 23. All circRNA profiling data have been deposited in the Mendeley online data repository: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/9zdhc6pmx5/1.
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