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An Efficient Diagnostic Model Combined with Novel Serum Biomarkers for Early Detection of Steroid-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head
33 Pages Posted: 10 Jan 2019
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Steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (SONFH) is difficult to be diagnosed at the early stages when it can be administrated effectively. Yet, to date no study has been performed to identify diagnostic biomarkers and to develop diagnostic models for SONFH. In the current study, a total of 60 SONFH patients with Association Research Circulation Osseous (ARCO) stages I-IV, and 20 controls were enrolled and divided into the discovery and validation cohorts. The serum samples were collected and the gene expression profiles were detected by microarray analysis based on the discovery cohort. Then, eight genes (BIRC3, CBL, CCR5, LYN, PAK1, PTEN, RAF1 and TLR4) were identified as the candidate serum biomarkers of SONFH due to the significant differential expression patterns and the topological importance in the interaction network of SONFH-related differentially expressed genes. Functionally, these candidate serum biomarkers were significantly involved into several pathological processes during SONFH progression, such as the immune regulation and inflammation, bone metabolism and angiogenesis. After that, a prediction model for the early diagnosis of SONFH was constructed using Partial least squares regression based on the serum levels of the candidate biomarkers. Notably, both the 10-fold cross-validation and the independent dataset test demonstrated the good performance of this model. In conclusion, our study identified eight promising serum biomarkers and developed the circulating gene-based prediction model as a new, efficient and non-invasive diagnostic tool for the early detection of SONFH, as well as benefit the administration of SONFH in a daily clinical setting.
Funding Statement: This study is funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 81373656 & 81473695).
Declaration of Interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
Ethics Approval Statement: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Wangjing Hospital, China (SFDA approval number: 81473695). The informed consent was obtained from all patients.
Keywords: steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head; gene expression profiling; biological molecular network; biomarker; partial least square model
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