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ArticleScientific reports2025

Machine learning identified novel players in lipid metabolism, endosomal trafficking, and iron metabolism of the ALS spinal cord.

Jack Cheng, Bor-Tsang Wu, Hsin-Ping Liu, Wei-Yong Lin

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Jack Cheng *Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, 40402, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-9305-0781
Bor-Tsang Wu *Department of Senior Citizen Service Management, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung, 40343, Taiwan.
Hsin-Ping LiuGraduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, 40402, Taiwan. hpliu@mail.cmu.edu.tw.ORCID 0000-0002-2569-3072
Wei-Yong LinGraduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, 40402, Taiwan. linwy@mail.cmu.edu.tw.ORCID 0000-0002-8443-6180

Funding

China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan DMR-112-125China Medical University, Taiwan CMU110-MF-92China Medical University, Taiwan CMU112-MF-62National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan MOST 111-2314-B-039-017-MY3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons. Although genes causing familial cases have been identified, those of sporadic ALS, which occupies the majority of patients, are still elusive. In this study, we adopted machine learning to build binary classifiers based on the New York Genome Center (NYGC) ALS Consortium's RNA-seq data of the postmortem spinal cord of ALS and non-neurological disease control. The accuracy of the classifiers was greater than 83% and 77% for the training set and the unseen test set, respectively. The classifiers contained 114 genes. Among them, 41 genes have been reported in previous ALS studies, and others are novel in this field. These genes are involved in mitochondrial respiration, lipid metabolism, endosomal trafficking, and iron metabolism, which may promote the progression of ALS pathology.

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Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisEndosomesIronLipid MetabolismMachine LearningSpinal CordHumansMitochondriaMotor NeuronsIronALSMachine learningRNA-seqSpinal cord

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PMID39794401
PMCPMC11723943

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