Identification of Infertility-Associated Topologically Important Genes Using Weighted Co-expression Network Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Endometriosis has been associated with a high risk of infertility. However, the underlying molecular mechanism of infertility in endometriosis remains poorly understood. In our study, we aimed to discover topologically important genes related to infertility in endometriosis, based on the structure network mining. We used microarray data from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database to construct a weighted gene co-expression network for fertile and infertile women with endometriosis and to identify gene modules highly correlated with clinical features of infertility in endometriosis. Additionally, the protein-protein interaction network analysis was used to identify the potential 20 hub messenger RNAs (mRNAs) while the network topological analysis was used to identify nine candidate long

SUBMITTER: Wu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7887323 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature