Affiliation:
1. Department of Rehabilitation Research, Lishui Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to the Zhejiang University of Chinese Medicine
2. Department of Rehabilitation Research, Lishui Second People’s Hospital, Zhejiang, China
Abstract
The present study elucidated cuproptosis-related molecular clusters involved in ischemic stroke and developed predictive models. Transcriptomic and immunological profiles of ischemic stroke-related datasets were extracted from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. Next, we conducted weighted gene co-expression network analysis to determine cluster-specific differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Models such as random forest and eXtreme gradient boosting (XGB) were evaluated to select the best prediction performance model. Subsequently, we validated the model’s predictive efficiency by using nomograms, decision curve analysis, calibration curves, and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis with an external dataset. We identified two cuproptosis-related clusters involved in ischemic stroke. The DEGs in Cluster 2 were closely associated with amino acid metabolism, various immune responses, and cell proliferation pathways. The XGB model showed lower residuals, a smaller root mean square error, and a greater area under the curve value (AUC = 0.923), thus exhibiting the best discriminative performance. The AUC value for the external validation dataset was 0.921, thus confirming the high performance of the model. NFE2L2, NLRP3, GLS, LIPT1, and MTF1 were identified as potential cuproptosis predictors, thus shedding new light on ischemic stroke pathogenesis and heterogeneity.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
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