Vasculitis & polymyalgia rheumatica

The transcriptional profiling identifies hub genes in immune subsets of patients with Behçet's syndrome

Clin Exp RheumatolPublished Mechanistic study

Authors' conclusion

Our findings provide novel insights into the immune subsets related to the biological process in BS

Study context

Population
Patients with Behçet's syndrome and healthy controls; CD14+ monocytes and CD4+ T cells from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) dataset GSE61,399
Comparison
BD vs healthy controls
Outcome
Hub genes and biological processes (DEGs) in immune subsets
Methodological detailsbioinformatic analysis of public expression profiles (GSE61399), Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment, protein-protein interaction (PPI) network (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes (STRING), Cytoscape Molecular Complex Detection (MCODE))
  • Bioinformatic analysis of public expression profiles (GSE61399)
  • GO and KEGG enrichment
  • PPI network (STRING, Cytoscape MCODE)

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

Differential expression genes (DEGs) in CD14+ monocytes

102

DEGs in CD4+ T cells

48

Original publication

The transcriptional profiling identifies hub genes in immune subsets of patients with Behçet's syndrome. Clin Exp Rheumatol. Published 18 May 2022. doi:10.55563/clinexprheumatol/z4z0uj

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