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Abstract

Bioengineering

A Medical Decision Support Platform for Identifying Thrombospondin 1 in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease via Immuno-Infiltration Analysis

Published: August 30th, 2024

DOI:

10.3791/67328

1Department of Geriatric Cardiology, General Hospital of Southern Theater Command, 2Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Cardiac Rehabilitation, 3Branch of National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 4The First School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, 5Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Cardiovascular Department/The Second School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, 6Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, 7Department of Teleinformatics Engineering, Federal University of Ceará

Abstract

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and myocardial infarction (MI) are two major health burdens with significant prevalence and mortality. This study aimed to explore the co-expressed genes to understand the relationship between NAFLD and MI and identify potential crucial biomarkers of NAFLD-related MI using bioinformatics and machine learning. Functional enrichment analysis was conducted, a co-protein-protein interaction (PPI) network diagram was constructed, and support vector machine-recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) techniques were employed to identify one differentially expressed gene (DEG), Thrombospondin 1 (THBS1). THBS1 demonstrated strong performance in distinguishing NAFLD patients (AUC = 0.981) and MI patients (AUC = 0.900). Immuno-infiltration analysis revealed significantly lower CD8+ T cells and higher neutrophil levels in patients with NAFLD and MI. CD8+ T cells and neutrophils were effective in distinguishing NAFLD/MI from healthy controls. Correlation analysis showed that THBS1 was positively correlated with CCR (chemokine receptor), MHC class (major histocompatibility complex class), neutrophils, parainflammation, and Tfh (follicular helper T cells), and negatively correlated with CD8+ T cells, cytolytic activity, and TIL (tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes) in NAFLD and MI patients. THBS1 emerged as a novel biomarker for diagnosing NAFLD/MI in comparison to healthy controls. The results indicate that CD8+ T cells and neutrophils could serve as inflammatory immune features for differentiating patients with NAFLD/MI from healthy individuals.

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