Integrative Analysis for Elucidating Transcriptomics Landscapes of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis

Abstract

Osteoporosis is the most common bone metabolic disease, characterized by bone mass loss and bone microstructure changes due to unbalanced bone conversion, which increases bone fragility and fracture risk. Glucocorticoids are clinically used to treat a variety of diseases, including inflammation, cancer and autoimmune diseases. However, excess glucocorticoids can cause osteoporosis. Herein we performed an integrated analysis of two glucocorticoid-related microarray datasets. The WGCNA analysis identified 3 and 4 glucocorticoid-related gene modules, respectively. Differential expression analysis revealed 1047 and 844 differentially expressed genes in the two datasets. After integrating differentially expressed glucocorticoid-related genes, we found that most of the robust differentially expressed genes were up-regulated. Through protein-protein interaction analysis, we obtained 158 glucocorticoid-related candidate genes. Enrichment analysis showed that these genes are significantly enriched in the osteoporosis related pathways. Our results provided new insights into glucocorticoidinduced osteoporosis and potential candidate markers of osteoporosis.

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