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JOURNAL OF APPLIED TOXICOLOGY
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jat.4475
Keywords
computational toxicology; machine learning; pharmacotherapy during pregnancy; QSAR; risk assessment
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By creating a QSAR model, the risk level of drugs during pregnancy can be predicted, providing guidance on the safe use of pharmaceuticals without the need for animal tests or clinical trials on pregnant women.
The risk evaluation for pharmacological therapy during pregnancy is critical for maternal and fetal health. The initial risk assessment stage, the risk measurement, begins with pregnancy-labeling categories (A, B, C, D, and X) for pharmaceuticals defined by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Recently, in silico methods have been preferred in toxicology studies to eliminate ethical issues before conducting clinical toxicology studies and animal experiments. Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modeling is one of the in silico methodologies. The research focuses on creating a QSAR model that predicts the five FDA pregnancy categories of medications. Our dataset included 868 pharmaceuticals, containing nearly every pharmacological group collected from the FDA. 2D-molecular descriptors were calculated using PaDEL software. Twenty-four QSAR models were developed, and the best four models were discussed. The results of the models were compared according to sensitivity, accuracy, F-score, specificity, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) values, and Matthews correlation coefficient. Considering the statistical results, random forest is the best model for determining the pregnancy risk category of drugs. The accuracy of the model was 76.49% for internal and 93.58% for external validation. According to the kappa statistics, there is an average agreement of 0.583 for internal validation and a perfect agreement of 0.893 for external validation. Because the error rates of the model are very close to 0, the model is highly accurate. Consequently, our novel QSAR model gives guidance on the safe use of pharmaceuticals during pregnancy without requiring animal tests or clinical trials on pregnant women.
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