Identifying candidate diagnostic markers for tuberculosis: A critical role of co-expression and pathway analysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We conducted a systematic bioinformatics analysis to explore an important set of gene expression data with 39 samples infected at different time stages withW-Beijing families of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. We took a contrast on the samples at different infection time stages to characterize gene expression features of the THP1 cells to identify sensitive and specific molecular markers for diagnosis. We first confirmed, through the multidimensional scaling unsupervised clustering, that samples were clustered well according to different infection times. Building on this classification result and using the linear modelling and empirical Bayes moderation, we found 287 hits as most significant genes associated with tuberculosis. We generated a gene co-expression network map based on the mutual regulation between the differentially expressed genes. We found that 27 genes are regulatory genes associated with tuberculosis. We constructed 4 gene pathway figures to explain the pathogenicity process that involves 24 key genes. This study implicates that contrast on the gene expression of the classifications in different infection stages provides critical information for the detection of tuberculosis, and our method can be utilized to narrow down the shortlist of disease relevant genes and explore tuberculosis pathogenesis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".