| lncRNAs | long non-coding RNAs |
| LPS | lipopolysaccharide |
| RNA-seq | RNA-sequencing |
| bp | base pair |
| NGS | next-generation sequencing |
| CPAT | Coding-Potential Assessment Tool |
| CPC | Coding Potential Calculator |
| FEELnc | Flexible Extraction of LncRNAs |
| Pfam | protein family database |
| DELs | differentially expressed lncRNAs |
| GO | Gene Ontology database |
| TAR | transcriptionally active region |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| SNV | single nucleotide variant |
| SNP | single nucleotide polymorphism |
| PGE2 | prostaglandin E2 |
| TNF-α | tumor necrosis factor alpha |
| IL-1β | interleukin 1 beta |
| IL-6 | interleukin 6 |
| IFNs | interferons |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| FPKM | fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| AS | alternative splicing |
| rMATS | replicate multivariate analysis of transcript splicing |
| DAS | differentially alternative splicing |
| A5SS | alternative 5′splice site |
| A3SS | alternative 3′splice site |
| MXE | mutually exclusive exons |
| RI | retention intron |
| SE | skipping exon |
| AF | alternative first |
| AL | last exon |
| PSI | percent splicing inclusion |
| SSR | single sequence repeat |
| ASE | allele-specific expression |
| AAF | alternative allele fraction |
| TLR | Toll-like receptor |
| I 5 | intron 5 |
| dsRNA | double stranded RNA |
| SINE | short interspersed nuclear element |
| A-to-I | adenosine to inosine RNA editing |
| T4 | thyroxine |
| T3 | triiodothyronine |
| MXC-I | major histocompatibility complex I |
| RhoGTPases | Rho family of GTPase |
| MAPK | mitogen-activated protein kinas |
| NF-κB | nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells |
| JNK | c-Jun N-terminal kinases |
| RIG-I signaling pathway | Retinoic acid-Inducible Gene I signaling pathway |
| heteroref | heterozygous variants in which reference allele was predominant |
| heteroalt | heterozygous variants in which alternate allele was predominant |
| true heterozygotes | heterozygous sites with no predominant variant |
| GATK | The Genome Analysis Toolkit |
| ΔPSI | difference in PSI values |
| BP | biological process |
| MF | molecular function |
| CC | cellular components |
| ΔΔCT | comparative cycle threshold method |
| rs ID | SNP annotation in database |
| C-to-U | cytidine to uridine RNA editing |
| VEP | Variant Effect Predictor |
| VCF | variant calling format |
| r | Pearson’s correlation coefficient |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes database |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| ENA | European Nucleotide Archive |