Fig. 6.

Expression of lncRNAs in blood of healthy volunteers and in myocarditis vs. AMI patients. Violin plots representing the number of lncRNAs detected in total RNA extracted from PAXgene whole blood samples (n = 148) (A) or plasma samples (n = 99) (B) from healthy volunteers. Numbers of lncRNAs with detection counts more than 1, 5, 10 and 20 CPM are indicated. C. Volcano plot representing the differentially expressed lncRNAs in blood samples of myocarditis patients (n = 13) vs. patients with acute myocardial infarction (n = 10). A fold change >2 and a p-value <0.05 were considered as cut-offs for differential expression. The red color indicates an up-regulation and the blue color a down-regulation in myocarditis vs. AMI patients. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)