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ArticleImmunity, inflammation and disease2024

Identification of diagnostic candidate genes in COVID-19 patients with sepsis.

Jiuang Li, Shiqian Pu, Lei Shu, Mingjun Guo, Zhihui He

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  2. Identification of key genes and development of an identifying machine learning model for sepsis.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025
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Jiuang LiDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.ORCID 0009-0006-2034-3387
Shiqian PuDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Lei ShuDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Mingjun GuoDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Zhihui HeDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5672-9691

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purposeCoronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and sepsis are closely related. This study aims to identify pivotal diagnostic candidate genes in COVID-19 patients with sepsis. PATIENTS AND

methodsWe obtained a COVID-19 data set and a sepsis data set from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Identification of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and module genes using the Linear Models for Microarray Data (LIMMA) and weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA), functional enrichment analysis, protein-protein interaction (PPI) network construction, and machine learning algorithms (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression and Random Forest (RF)) were used to identify candidate hub genes for the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients with sepsis. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were developed to assess the diagnostic value. Finally, the data set GSE28750 was used to verify the core genes and analyze the immune infiltration.

resultsThe COVID-19 data set contained 3,438 DEGs, and 595 common genes were screened in sepsis. sepsis DEGs were mainly enriched in immune regulation. The intersection of DEGs for COVID-19 and core genes for sepsis was 329, which were also mainly enriched in the immune system. After developing the PPI network, 17 node genes were filtered and thirteen candidate hub genes were selected for diagnostic value evaluation using machine learning. All thirteen candidate hub genes have diagnostic value, and 8 genes with an Area Under the Curve (AUC) greater than 0.9 were selected as diagnostic genes.

conclusionFive core genes (CD3D, IL2RB, KLRC, CD5, and HLA-DQA1) associated with immune infiltration were identified to evaluate their diagnostic utility COVID-19 patients with sepsis. This finding contributes to the identification of potential peripheral blood diagnostic candidate genes for COVID-19 patients with sepsis.

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COVID-19Protein Interaction MapsSARS-CoV-2SepsisComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingGene Regulatory NetworksHumansMachine LearningROC CurvebioinformaticsCoronavirus Disease 2019diagnosisimmune infiltrationmachine learningsepsis

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