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ArticleScientific reports2024

An interactive atlas of genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic biomarkers promotes the potential of proteins to predict complex diseases.

Martin Smelik, Yelin Zhao, Xinxiu Li, Joseph Loscalzo, Oleg Sysoev, Firoj Mahmud, Dina Mansour Aly, Mikael Benson

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Advancing drug development with "Fit-for-Purpose" modeling informed approaches.Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics · 2025
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  6. Plasma protein-based and polygenic risk scores serve complementary roles in predicting inflammatory bowel disease.Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing · 2025
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8 authors.

Martin Smelik *Medical Digital Twin Research Group, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Yelin Zhao *Medical Digital Twin Research Group, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Xinxiu LiMedical Digital Twin Research Group, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Joseph LoscalzoDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Oleg SysoevDivision of Statistics and Machine Learning, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Firoj Mahmud *Medical Digital Twin Research Group, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dina Mansour Aly *Medical Digital Twin Research Group, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mikael Benson *Medical Digital Twin Research Group, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. mikael.benson@ki.se.

Funding

L-2-Hydroxyglutarate and Metabolic Remodeling in HypoxiaR01HL155107 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Joseph Loscalzo · 2021 to 2026
$4.1M
American Heart Association 957729Cancerfonden CAN 2017/411Horizon 2020 848028HORIZON EUROPE Research Infrastructures 101057619NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL155107Vetenskapsrådet HL155107
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiomics analyses have identified multiple potential biomarkers of the incidence and prevalence of complex diseases. However, it is not known which type of biomarker is optimal for clinical purposes. Here, we make a systematic comparison of 90 million genetic variants, 1453 proteins, and 325 metabolites from 500,000 individuals with complex diseases from the UK Biobank. A machine learning pipeline consisting of data cleaning, data imputation, feature selection, and model training using cross-validation and comparison of the results on holdout test sets showed that proteins were most predictive, followed by metabolites, and genetic variants. Only five proteins per disease resulted in median (min-max) areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves for incidence of 0.79 (0.65-0.86) and 0.84 (0.70-0.91) for prevalence. In summary, our work suggests the potential of predicting complex diseases based on a limited number of proteins. We provide an interactive atlas (macd.shinyapps.io/ShinyApp/) to find genomic, proteomic, or metabolomic biomarkers for different complex diseases.

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BiomarkersGenomicsMetabolomicsProteomicsHumansMachine LearningBiomarkers

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PMID38830935
PMCPMC11148091

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