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Machine Learning to Identify Genetic Salt-Losing Tubulopathies in Hypokalemic Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Clinically distinguishing patients with the inherited salt-losing tubulopathies (SLTs), Gitelman or Bartter syndrome (GS or BS) from other causes of hypokalemia (LK) patients is difficult, and genotyping is costly. We decided to identify clinical characteristics that differentiate SLTs from LK.

Methods

A total of 66 hypokalemic patients with possible SLTs were recruited to a prospective observational cohort study at the University College London Renal Tubular Clinic, London. All patients were genotyped for pathogenic variants in genes which cause SLTs; 39 patients had pathogenic variants in genes causing SLTs. We obtained similar data sets from cohorts in Taipei and Kobe, as follows: the combined data set comprised 419 patients; 291 had genetically confirmed SLT. London and Taipei data sets were combined to train machine learning (ML) algorithms, which were then tested on the Kobe data set.

Results

Single biochemical variables (e.g., plasma renin) were significantly, but inconsistently, different between SLTs and LK in all cohorts. A decision table algorithm using serum bicarbonate and urinary sodium excretion (FE_Na) achieved a classification accuracy of 74%. This was superior to all the single biochemical variables identified previously.

Conclusion

ML algorithms can differentiate true SLT in the context of a specialist clinic with some accuracy. However, based on routine biochemistry, the accuracy is insufficient to make genotyping redundant.

SUBMITTER: Wan ER

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10014379 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Machine Learning to Identify Genetic Salt-Losing Tubulopathies in Hypokalemic Patients.

Wan Elizabeth R ER Iancu Daniela D Ashton Emma E Siew Keith K Mohidin Barian B Sung Chih-Chien CC Nagano China C Bockenhauer Detlef D Lin Shih-Hua SH Nozu Kandai K Walsh Stephen B SB

Kidney international reports 20221224 3

<h4>Introduction</h4>Clinically distinguishing patients with the inherited salt-losing tubulopathies (SLTs), Gitelman or Bartter syndrome (GS or BS) from other causes of hypokalemia (LK) patients is difficult, and genotyping is costly. We decided to identify clinical characteristics that differentiate SLTs from LK.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 66 hypokalemic patients with possible SLTs were recruited to a prospective observational cohort study at the University College London Renal Tubular Clinic, ...[more]

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Machine Learning to Identify Genetic Salt-Losing Tubulopathies in Hypokalemic Patients.

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Machine Learning to Identify Genetic Salt-Losing Tubulopathies in Hypokalemic Patients.

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