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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2025

Portfolio analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing and transcriptomic data unravels immune cells and telomere-related biomarkers in sepsis.

Dan Chen, Xiyi Huang, Chun Wang, Cheng Zheng, Yunhao Liu

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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Dan Chen *Department of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, School of Public Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Xiyi Huang *Department of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, School of Public Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Chun WangShantou University Medical College, Shantou, China.
Cheng ZhengDepartment of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, School of Public Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Yunhao LiuDepartment of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, School of Public Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

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Abstract

Background: Early diagnosis of sepsis is essential to reducing mortality. Immune cells and telomeres play important roles in sepsis, but their mechanisms were still unclear. This study aimed to explore the value of immune cells and telomere-related genes in sepsis. Methods: In this study, the transcriptomic data with sepsis and control samples were obtained from public database. Multiple methods including differential expression analysis, immune infiltration analysis, weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA), 101-machine learning algorithm combinations were used to identify biomarkers which related to the immune cells and telomere. Afterwards, a nomogram was constructed to assess the clinical predictive value of biomarkers. In addition, gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA), regulatory network construction and drug prediction analysis were adopted to demonstrate the role of biomarkers in sepsis. The key cells were also identified using a single-cell dataset. Finally, the expression of biomarkers was further validated in clinical samples by reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). Results: This study obtained a total of 4 biomarkers ( Conclusion: This study identified 4 biomarkers, namely

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SepsisTelomereTranscriptomeBiomarkersComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGene Regulatory NetworksHumansNomogramsSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisBiomarkers101-machine learningimmune cellssepsissingle-cell RNA sequencingtelomere

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