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ABSTRACT: Background
Thyroid eye disease (TED) is the most common autoimmune disease and usually occurs in patients with hyperthyroidism. In this disease, eye-related tissue, such as eye muscles, eyelids, tear glands, etc., become inflated, which causes the eyes and eyelids to become red, swollen, and uncomfortable. The pathophysiology of this disease is still poorly known.Aim
This study aims to discover potential biomarkers and regulatory pathways of TED which will not only help to diagnose the disease and understand orbital involvement in thyroid dysfunction but also provide an insight for better therapeutics.Methods
We applied a data-driven approach by combining gene biomarkers both from published literature and computationally predicted from microarray gene expression data. Further, the DAVID tool is used for Gene Ontology-based enrichment analysis.Results
We obtained a total of 22 gene biomarkers, including 18 semi-automatically curated from the literature and 4 predicted using data-driven approaches, involved in the pathogenesis of TED that can be used as potential information for therapeutic targets. Further, we constructed a regulatory pathway of TED biomarkers comprises of 310 connected components, and 1134 interactions using four prominent interaction databases.Conclusion
This constructed pathway can be further utilized for disease dynamics and simulation studies.
SUBMITTER: Zou H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8034124 | biostudies-literature |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature