Abbreviations	Expanded Form
ALS	Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Pax3	Paired box 3
Pax7	Paired box 7
MyoD	Myogenic Differentiation 1
Myf5	Myogenic Factor 5
MRF4	Muscle Regulatory Factor 4
MRFs	Myogenic regulatory factors
Dex	Dexamethasone
ASOs	Antisense oligonucleotides
CeRNA	Competitive endogenous RNA
circRNAs	Circular RNAs
DMD	Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Dnmts	DNA methyltransferases
eRNAs	Enhancer RNAs
HC	Hepatic Cholesterol Regulator
IMP2	IGF2-mRNA-binding protein 2
lincRNAs	Long intergenic non-coding RNAs
lncRNAs	Long non-coding RNAs
miRNA	MicroRNA
MPCs	Muscle progenitor cells
MSL	Male Specific Lethal
MuSCs	Muscle stem cells
NATs	Natural antisense transcripts
ORFs	Open reading frames
PALRs	Promoter-associated long RNAs
piRNAs	Piwi-interacting RNAs
PRC2	Polycomb Repressive Complex 2
RBPs	RNA-binding proteins
RNP	Ribonucleoprotein
SMA	Spinal muscular atrophy
SNPs	Single nucleotide polymorphisms
UTRs	Untranslated regions
Xist	X-inactive specific transcript