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In Silico Variant Analysis Identifies Mutations in TP53 Gene Increasing The Risk of Cancer in COVID-19 Patients

2025· article· en· W4408804451 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ankita Singh, Prekshi Garg, Prachi Srivastava

Bibliographic record

VenueCoronaviruses · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIn silicoCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)GeneSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakGeneticsBiologyCancerComputational biologyMutationVirologyMedicineInternal medicineDisease

Abstract

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Introduction: The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 emerged as a global pandemic due to its lethal nature and great potential to spread rapidly. It is predicted that the coronavirus infection can leave detrimental consequences in infected patients even after recovery. Therefore considering the ability of the virus to induce lethal mutations in the host genome, we aimed to identify variants in COVID-19 patients irrespective of their origin. Methods: For the present study, transcriptomic data of patients were retrieved from the GEO dataset of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (GSE216811 and GSE197976 (India), GSE174786 (Germany), GSE171052 (Canada), GSE 206264 (Spain) and GSE206677 (Japan)). Each dataset was assessed independently for Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). After quality check and removing low-quality reads the samples were normalized using Bcf-tools norms. Further, SnpEff eff and SIFT4g annotator was used to identify and annotate variants occurring in each sample. The common variants occurring in all the patients of COVID-19. Were identified through a Venn diagram. The systems biology approach was used to identify hub genes out of common mutated genes. Results and Discussion: CytoHUBBA plug-in of Cytoscape identified TP53 as the hub gene mutated due to COVID- 19 infection. TP53 is a tumor suppressor gene that plays an important role in DNA damage repair, cell cycle regulation, and inducing apoptosis. Conclusion: Therefore, we conclude that mutation in TP53 causes loss of suppression potential of the gene increasing the risk of cancer in such individuals.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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