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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2022

Multiple Machine Learning Methods Reveal Key Biomarkers of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment.

Jie Zhu, Larry D Sanford, Rong Ren, Ye Zhang, Xiangdong Tang

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Automated analysis of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Inter-Scorer Reliability gold-standard polysomnogram dataset.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025
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  6. [Sleep Innovation].Open respiratory archives · 2024
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  7. The role of artificial intelligence in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-faciale · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jie ZhuSleep Medicine Center, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Larry D SanfordSleep Research Laboratory, Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Inflammatory Diseases, Pathology and Anatomy, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, United States.
Rong RenSleep Medicine Center, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Ye ZhangSleep Medicine Center, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Xiangdong TangSleep Medicine Center, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Sichuan University · CNWest China Hospital of Sichuan University · CNEastern Virginia Medical School · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a worldwide health issue that affects more than 400 million people. Given the limitations inherent in the current conventional diagnosis of OSA based on symptoms report, novel diagnostic approaches are required to complement existing techniques. Recent advances in gene sequencing technology have made it possible to identify a greater number of genes linked to OSA. We identified key genes in OSA and CPAP treatment by screening differentially expressed genes (DEGs) using the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database and employing machine learning algorithms. None of these genes had previously been implicated in OSA. Moreover, a new diagnostic model of OSA was developed, and its diagnostic accuracy was verified in independent datasets. By performing Single Sample Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (ssGSEA) and Counting Relative Subsets of RNA Transcripts (CIBERSORT), we identified possible immunologic mechanisms, which led us to conclude that patients with high OSA risk tend to have elevated inflammation levels that can be brought down by CPAP treatment.

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artificial neural networkbioinfomatic analysiscontinuous positive airway pressuremachine learningobstructive sleep apnearandom forest (bagging) and machine learningSVM–support vector machine

Identifiers

PMID35910196
PMCPMC9326093
OpenAlexW4285394437

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