ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2025
A Combined Bioinformatics and Clinical Validation Study Identifies
Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is often diagnosed after significant lung damage has already occurred, highlighting a need for minimally invasive biomarkers for early detection of COPD development. This study aims to identify transcriptional biomarkers in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). A Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis (WGCNA) was performed on the GSE146560 transcriptomic dataset. Hub genes were cross-validated using independent transcriptomic data (GSE94916), topology analysis of a COPD-related protein-protein interaction (PPI) network, and a text-mining approach. The top candidate genes were validated using RT-qPCR in a clinical cohort, consisting of 28 COPD patients and 13 healthy volunteers, and their diagnostic value was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. WGCNA identified four gene modules significantly correlated with COPD, the functional annotation of which revealed their enrichment in immune and tissue remodeling pathways. Further analysis of the PPI network topology structure and gene expression revealed a hub gene signature that was significantly upregulated in PBMCs of COPD patients, including
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.