Analysis of Differentially Expressed Genes That Aggravate Metabolic Diseases in Depression

Depression is considered the second leading cause of the global health burden after cancer. It is recognized as the most common physiological disorder. It affects about 350 million people worldwide to a serious degree. The onset of depression, inadequate food intake, abnormal glycemic control and co...

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Autores principales: Sukanta Bhadra, Siyu Chen, Chang Liu
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Sumario:Depression is considered the second leading cause of the global health burden after cancer. It is recognized as the most common physiological disorder. It affects about 350 million people worldwide to a serious degree. The onset of depression, inadequate food intake, abnormal glycemic control and cognitive impairment have strong associations with various metabolic disorders which are mediated through alterations in diet and physical activities. The regulatory key factors among metabolic diseases and depression are poorly understood. To understand the molecular mechanisms of the dysregulation of genes affected in depressive disorder, we employed an analytical, quantitative framework for depression and related metabolic diseases. In this study, we examined datasets containing patients with depression, obesity, diabetes and NASH. After normalizing batch effects to minimize the heterogeneity of all the datasets, we found differentially expressed genes (DEGs) common to all the datasets. We identified significantly associated enrichment pathways, ontology pathways, protein–protein cluster networks and gene–disease associations among the co-expressed genes co-expressed in depression and the metabolic disorders. Our study suggested potentially active signaling pathways and co-expressed gene sets which may play key roles in crosstalk between metabolic diseases and depression.