Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is characterized by chondrocyte hypertrophy and its progression causes the focal calcification of joint cartilage. The molecular mechanisms regulating the progression of OA and hypertrophic chondrocytes are poorly understood. Recently, lncRNA has proven to be critical to various developmental and epigenetic regulatory processes of treatment for OA 1,2. The aim of this study was to investigate lncRNA expression patterns in hypertrophic chondrocytes and determine the characteristics of gene regulation processes associated with hypertrophic differentiation. Methods: TC28a2 human-immortalized chondrocytes were used to study hypertrophic chondrocytes by differentiation induction. The expression of the hypertrophic...