Long non-coding RNA profiling of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts that do not typically code for protein but have essential roles in the regulation of transcription and translation in health and disease. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a commonly inherited cardiovascular disease. While a number of studies have described transcriptional regulation in human heart tissue and animal models of HCM, whether lncRNA plays a role in the pathophysiology of HCM remains unknown. We present an RNA-Seq dataset on left ventricle samples from transgenic HCM TNNT2 ∆160 mice (n = 31) and non-transgenic (n = 33) mice (n = 64 total) in which differentially expressed lncRNAs are delineated. We determined the mouse lncRNA genes that have a human ortholog, which may be useful for future investigators aiming to study the role of particular lncRNAs in human HCM.