Individualized diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: A rank-based qualitative T cell-related signature.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease with persistent synovitis and joint destruction, leading to a huge economic and physical burden on patients. The detection of RA is important for the individual's guiding therapeutic. However, current signatures lacked enough effects fo...

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Main Authors: Hang Su, Xingyi Li, Yawei Li
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326027
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description Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease with persistent synovitis and joint destruction, leading to a huge economic and physical burden on patients. The detection of RA is important for the individual's guiding therapeutic. However, current signatures lacked enough effects for the diagnosis of RA. Here, a pariwise signature, including genes ICAM2 and OSTF1, was derived based on a rank-based method, which was called ICAM2-OSTF1 signature (IOS). The sensitivity and specificity of IOS in the training dataset were 87.39% and 86.79%, respectively. The accuracy of IOS was 91.07% in the validation dataset that contained a total of 280 samples from two independent datasets. Besides, when using eight methods, such as ssGSEA, xCell and TIMER, to quantitate the immune infiltration characteristics in RA. We found that RA presented elevated pro-inflammation immune infiltration and immune score. In addition, transcriptome analysis demonstrated that the consistent transcriptional differences between RA and healthy control were significantly enriched in some pathways typically related to the immune microenvironments, such as T cell activation. Finally, network analysis demonstrated that ICAM2, CXCL16, CKLF and SLPI may be related to the occurrence of RA. In brief, IOS can individually distinguish RA from healthy controls measured by different laboratories, and be an auxiliary test for diagnosing RA.
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spelling doaj-art-9ac8a428a05f440da7be7f7f248ba55e2025-08-20T03:27:33ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032025-01-01206e032602710.1371/journal.pone.0326027Individualized diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: A rank-based qualitative T cell-related signature.Hang SuXingyi LiYawei LiRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease with persistent synovitis and joint destruction, leading to a huge economic and physical burden on patients. The detection of RA is important for the individual's guiding therapeutic. However, current signatures lacked enough effects for the diagnosis of RA. Here, a pariwise signature, including genes ICAM2 and OSTF1, was derived based on a rank-based method, which was called ICAM2-OSTF1 signature (IOS). The sensitivity and specificity of IOS in the training dataset were 87.39% and 86.79%, respectively. The accuracy of IOS was 91.07% in the validation dataset that contained a total of 280 samples from two independent datasets. Besides, when using eight methods, such as ssGSEA, xCell and TIMER, to quantitate the immune infiltration characteristics in RA. We found that RA presented elevated pro-inflammation immune infiltration and immune score. In addition, transcriptome analysis demonstrated that the consistent transcriptional differences between RA and healthy control were significantly enriched in some pathways typically related to the immune microenvironments, such as T cell activation. Finally, network analysis demonstrated that ICAM2, CXCL16, CKLF and SLPI may be related to the occurrence of RA. In brief, IOS can individually distinguish RA from healthy controls measured by different laboratories, and be an auxiliary test for diagnosing RA.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326027
spellingShingle Hang Su
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Yawei Li
Individualized diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: A rank-based qualitative T cell-related signature.
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title Individualized diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: A rank-based qualitative T cell-related signature.
title_full Individualized diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: A rank-based qualitative T cell-related signature.
title_fullStr Individualized diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: A rank-based qualitative T cell-related signature.
title_full_unstemmed Individualized diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: A rank-based qualitative T cell-related signature.
title_short Individualized diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: A rank-based qualitative T cell-related signature.
title_sort individualized diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis a rank based qualitative t cell related signature
url https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326027
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