Issue 18, 2023

Machine learning encodes urine and serum metabolic patterns for autoimmune disease discrimination, classification and metabolic dysregulation analysis

Abstract

There is a wide variety of autoimmune diseases (ADs) with complex pathogenesis and their accurate diagnosis is difficult to achieve because of their vague symptoms. Metabolomics has been proven to be an efficient tool in the analysis of metabolic disorders to provide clues about the mechanism and diagnosis of diseases. Previous studies of the metabolomics analysis of ADs were not competent in their discrimination. Herein, a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) strategy combined with machine learning is proposed for the discrimination and classification of ADs. Urine and serum samples were collected from 267 subjects consisting of 127 healthy controls (HC) and 140 AD patients, including those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), sicca syndrome (SS), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), systemic scleroderma (SSc) and connective tissue disease (CTD). Machine learning algorithms were encoded for the discrimination and classification of ADs with metabolomic patterns obtained by LC-MS, and satisfactory results were achieved. Notably, urine samples exhibited higher accuracy for disease differentiation and triage than serum samples. Apart from that, differential metabolites were selected and metabolite panels were evaluated to demonstrate their representativeness. Metabolic dysregulations were also investigated to gain more knowledge about the pathogenesis of ADs. This research provides a promising method for the application of metabolomics combined with machine learning in precision medicine.

Graphical abstract: Machine learning encodes urine and serum metabolic patterns for autoimmune disease discrimination, classification and metabolic dysregulation analysis

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 יונ 2023
Accepted
26 יול 2023
First published
27 יול 2023

Analyst, 2023,148, 4318-4330

Machine learning encodes urine and serum metabolic patterns for autoimmune disease discrimination, classification and metabolic dysregulation analysis

Q. Du, X. Wang, J. Chen, Y. Wang, W. Liu, L. Wang, H. Liu, L. Jiang and Z. Nie, Analyst, 2023, 148, 4318 DOI: 10.1039/D3AN01051A

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