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Area of Science:

  • Biotechnology
  • Genomics
  • Medical Diagnostics

Background:

  • Accurate pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) diagnosis is crucial for timely intervention and preventing disease spread.
  • Current PTB diagnostic methods face limitations in sensitivity, specificity, and practicality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a non-invasive, blood transcriptome-based diagnostic model for PTB.
  • To identify novel and robust transcriptomic biomarkers for PTB detection.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a dataset of 2,792 peripheral blood transcriptome samples.
  • Integrated top-scoring pair analysis with machine learning for the diagnostic model (PTBD).
  • Validated the model on test and independent external datasets.

Main Results:

  • The PTBD model accurately distinguished PTB from various other conditions, including healthy individuals, latent TB, pneumonia, lung cancer, and pulmonary nodules.
  • Achieved an AUC of 0.869 in the test set and 0.909 in the external validation set.
  • Demonstrated consistent performance across diverse populations and clinical conditions, meeting WHO requirements.

Conclusions:

  • The developed PTBD tool offers a broadly applicable method for early PTB diagnosis.
  • Identified novel transcriptomic biomarkers, including five diagnostic gene-pair expression patterns, representing PTB molecular hallmarks.
  • This approach has the potential to reduce the global PTB burden through timely intervention.