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Searching for perturbed biological pathways and genes through analyzing the expression profile changes in osteoclasts after treatment by bisphosphonates

  • Authors:
    • Long Zhao
    • Bin Zhang
    • Feng Wu
    • Xuan-Huang Chen
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  • Published online on: January 30, 2019     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2019.7219
  • Pages: 2541-2546
  • Copyright: © Zhao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Criticality pathways and genes related to osteoporosis were identified. We downloaded the expression data of osteoclasts treated with or without bisphosphonates and all human pathways from the public database. Gibbs sampling and Markov chain were performed to identify the disturbed pathways and the hub genes in the disturbed pathways. Pathways and genes with adjusted probability (αadj) ≥0.75 were considered as the disturbed pathways and hub genes. We identified four disturbed pathways (Maturity onset diabetes of the young, Olfactory transduction, Cyanoamino acid metabolism, Taurine and hypotaurine metabolism) and two hub genes (OR2A4 and NKX2-2) with αadj  ≥0.75. The expression levels of these disturbed pathways and hub genes were downregulated in bisphosphonates group. In conclusion, four disturbed pathways and two hub genes related to osteoporosis were identified. These results give us a better understanding of the potential mechanism of bisphosphonate treatment and the pathogenesis of osteoporosis.
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Zhao L, Zhang B, Wu F and Chen X: Searching for perturbed biological pathways and genes through analyzing the expression profile changes in osteoclasts after treatment by bisphosphonates. Exp Ther Med 17: 2541-2546, 2019
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Zhao, L., Zhang, B., Wu, F., & Chen, X. (2019). Searching for perturbed biological pathways and genes through analyzing the expression profile changes in osteoclasts after treatment by bisphosphonates. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 17, 2541-2546. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2019.7219
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Zhao, L., Zhang, B., Wu, F., Chen, X."Searching for perturbed biological pathways and genes through analyzing the expression profile changes in osteoclasts after treatment by bisphosphonates". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 17.4 (2019): 2541-2546.
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Zhao, L., Zhang, B., Wu, F., Chen, X."Searching for perturbed biological pathways and genes through analyzing the expression profile changes in osteoclasts after treatment by bisphosphonates". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 17, no. 4 (2019): 2541-2546. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2019.7219