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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2022

RNA-seq and Network Analysis Reveal Unique Chemokine Activity Signatures in the Synovial Tissue of Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Runrun Zhang, Yehua Jin, Cen Chang, Lingxia Xu, Yanqin Bian, Yu Shen, Yang Sun, Songtao Sun, Steven J Schrodi, Shicheng Guo and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Runrun ZhangDepartment of Rheumatology, Shanghai Guanghua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Yehua JinDepartment of Rheumatology, Shanghai Guanghua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Cen ChangDepartment of Rheumatology, Shanghai Guanghua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Lingxia XuDepartment of Rheumatology, Shanghai Guanghua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Yanqin BianGuanghua Integrative Medicine Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Yu ShenGuanghua Integrative Medicine Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Yang SunGuanghua Integrative Medicine Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Songtao SunDepartment of Orthopedics, Shanghai Guanghua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Steven J SchrodiDepartment of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States.
Shicheng GuoDepartment of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States.
Dongyi HeDepartment of Rheumatology, Shanghai Guanghua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Shanghai Guanghua Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine · CNShanghai Innovative Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNShanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: This study aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the genome-wide expression patterns in the synovial tissue samples of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to investigate the potential mechanisms regulating RA occurrence and development. Methods: Transcription profiles of the synovial tissue samples from nine patients with RA and 15 patients with osteoarthritis (OA) (control) from the East Asian population were generated using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq). Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was used to analyze all the detected genes and the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified using DESeq. To further analyze the DEGs, the Gene Ontology (GO) functional enrichment and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analyses were performed. The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network of the DEGs was constructed using the Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins (STRING) and the hub genes were identified by topology clustering with the Molecular Complex Detection (MCODE)-Cytoscape. The most important hub genes were validated using quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). Results: Of the 17,736 genes detected, 851 genes were identified as the DEGs (474 upregulated and 377 downregulated genes) using the false discovery rate (FDR) approach. GSEA revealed that the significantly enriched gene sets that positively correlated with RA were CD40 signaling overactivation, Th1 cytotoxic module, overactivation of the immune response, adaptive immune response, effective vs. memory CD8+ T cells (upregulated), and naïve vs. effective CD8+ T cells (downregulated). Biological process enrichment analysis showed that the DEGs were significantly enriched for signal transduction ( Conclusion: This study identified and validated the DEGs in the synovial tissue samples of patients with RA, which highlighted the activity of a subset of chemokine genes, thereby providing novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of RA pathogenesis and identifying potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets for RA.

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differential gene expressionosteoarthritisrheumatoid arthritisRNA-seqsynovial tissue

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