Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8476313 | Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology | 2018 | 23 Pages |
Abstract
Graves' disease (GD) is a common autoimmune thyroid disease characterized by positive thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody. To better understand its molecular pathogenesis, we adopted the weighted gene co-expression network analysis to reveal co-expression modules of key genes involved in the pathogenesis of GD, protein-protein interaction network analysis to identify the hub genes related to GD development and functional analyses to explore their possible functions. Our results showed that 1) a total of 2667 differentially expressed genes in our microarray study and 16 different gene co-expression modules were associated with GD, and 2) the most significant module was associated with the percentage of macrophages, T follicular helper cells and CD4+ memory T cells and mainly enriched in immune regulation and immune response. Overall, our study reveals several key gene co-expression modules and functional pathways involved in GD, which provides some novel insights into the pathogenesis of GD.
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Authors
Xiaoqing Shao, Bin Wang, Kaida Mu, Ling Li, Qian Li, Weiwei He, Qiuming Yao, Xi Jia, Jin-an Zhang,