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A microRNA-based dynamic risk score for type 1 diabetes

2025· article· en· 17 citations· W4411069604 on OpenAlex· 10.1038/s41591-025-03730-7

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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.

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Threshold uncertainty score
0.412
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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Teacher spread
0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Identifying individuals at high risk of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is crucial as disease-delaying medications are available. Here we report a microRNA (miRNA)-based dynamic (responsive to the environment) risk score developed using multicenter, multiethnic and multicountry ('multicontext') cohorts for T1D risk stratification. Discovery (wet and dry lab) analysis identified 50 miRNAs associated with functional β cell loss, which is a hallmark of T1D. These miRNAs measured across n = 2,204 individuals from four contexts (4C: Australia, Denmark, Hong Kong SAR People's Republic of China, India) led to a four-context, miRNA-based dynamic risk score (DRS) that effectively stratified individuals with and without T1D. Generative artificial intelligence was used to create an enhanced four-context, miRNA-based DRS, which offered good predictive power (area under the curve = 0.84) for T1D stratification in a separate multicontext validation dataset (n = 662), and accurately predicted future exogenous insulin requirement at 1 hour of islet transplantation. In a clinical trial assessing the imatinib drug therapy, baseline miRNA signature, rather than clinical characteristics, distinguished drug responders from nonresponders at 1 year. This study harnessed machine learning/generative artificial intelligence approaches, identifying and validating a miRNA-based DRS for T1D discrimination and treatment efficacy prediction.

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The record

Venue
Nature Medicine
Topic
Diabetes and associated disorders
Field
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Canadian institutions
University of Alberta
Funders
National Health and Medical Research CouncilJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation AustraliaLeona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
Keywords
Type 2 diabetesmicroRNAMedicineDiabetes mellitusInternal medicineBioinformaticsComputational biologyOncologyBiologyEndocrinologyGeneticsGene
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes