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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation between ferroptosis-related genes and schizophrenia in order to explore the new direction of diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia. We screened the datasets related to schizophrenia from the Gene Expression Comprehensive Database (GEO) and obtained ferroptosis-related genes from the FerrDB database. Bioinformatics methods were used to analyze differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and genes associated with ferroptosis-related between schizophrenia patients and healthy controls. On this basis, the hub genes were finally screened by enrichment analysis and PPI interaction analysis. Hub genes associated with ferroptosis were validated using other schizophrenia datasets in the GEO database. Finally, the hub gene-microRNA (miRNA), gene-transcription factor interaction network was constructed, and three ferroptosis-related hub genes (TP53, VEGFA and PTGS2) were screened. The validation results of these three genes in other datasets also support this conclusion. A miRNA: hsa-mir-16-5p was found to be related to the three hub genes, and pPHF8, SAP30 and lKDM5B were identified as common regulators of the three hub genes. Our results indicate that TP53, VEGFA and PTGS2 are significantly associated with schizophrenia, and may be ferroptosis-related markers of the disease.

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Title
Identification of Ferroptosis-Related Genes in Schizophrenia Based on Bioinformatic Analysis
Author
Feng, Shunkang 1 ; Chen, Jun 2 ; Qu, Chunhui 3 ; Lu, Yang 4 ; Wu, Xiaohui 4 ; Wang, Shuo 4 ; Yang, Tao 4 ; Liu, Hongmei 4 ; Fang, Yiru 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sun, Ping 5 

 Qingdao University Medical College, Qingdao 266071, China; Qingdao Mental Health Center, Qingdao 266034, China 
 Clinical Research Center and Division of Mood Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai 200031, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai 201108, China 
 Qingdao Mental Health Center, Qingdao 266034, China 
 Clinical Research Center and Division of Mood Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China 
 Qingdao Mental Health Center, Qingdao 266034, China; Clinical Research Center and Division of Mood Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China 
First page
2168
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734425
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2748287148
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.