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Scoring personalized molecular portraits identify Systemic Lupus Erythematosus subtypes and predict individualized drug responses, symptomatology and disease progression

Journal

BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages -

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac332

Keywords

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; autoimmune diseases; computational models; molecular profiling; personalized medicine

Funding

  1. MCIN/AEI: FEDER [PID2020-119032RB-I00]
  2. Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) [831434]
  3. European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
  4. EFPIA
  5. FEDER/Juntade Andalucia-Consejer'a de Transformacion Economica, Industria, Conocimientoy Universidades [P20_00335, B-CTS-40-UGR20]
  6. 'Consejeriade Transformacion Economica, Industria, Conocimientoy Universidades' (CTEICU)
  7. European Union through the European Social Fund(ESF)
  8. SaraBorrell grant [ISCIII CD18/00149]
  9. Ministerio de Universidades (Spain's Government)
  10. European Union Next Generation EU

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This study developed MyPROSLE, an omic-based analytical workflow, to measure the molecular characteristics of individual patients and support therapeutic decisions. Through analysis of nearly 6100 lupus patients and 750 healthy samples, it was found that dysregulation of certain gene-modules is strongly associated with specific clinical manifestations, relapses, long-term remission, and drug response. Therefore, MyPROSLE can accurately predict these clinical outcomes.
Objectives: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is a complex autoimmune disease that leads to significant worsening of quality of life and mortality. Flares appear unpredictably during the disease course and therapies used are often only partially effective. These challenges are mainly due to the molecular heterogeneity of the disease, and in this context, personalized medicine-based approaches offer major promise. With this work we intended to advance in that direction by developing MyPROSLE, an omic-based analytical workflow for measuring the molecular portrait of individual patients to support clinicians in their therapeutic decisions. Methods: Immunological gene-modules were used to represent the transcriptome of the patients. A dysregulation score for each gene-module was calculated at the patient level based on averaged z-scores. Almost 6100 Lupus and 750 healthy samples were used to analyze the association among dysregulation scores, clinical manifestations, prognosis, flare and remission events and response to Tabalumab. Machine learning-based classification models were built to predict around 100 different clinical parameters based on personalized dysregulation scores. Results: MyPROSLE allows to molecularly summarize patients in 206 gene-modules, clustered into nine main lupus signatures. The combination of these modules revealed highly differentiated pathological mechanisms. We found that the dysregulation of certain gene-modules is strongly associated with specific clinical manifestations, the occurrence of relapses or the presence of long-term remission and drug response. Therefore, MyPROSLE may be used to accurately predict these clinical outcomes. Conclusions: MyPROSLE (https://myprosle.genyo.es) allows molecular characterization of individual Lupus patients and it extracts key molecular information to support more precise therapeutic decisions.

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