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Microarray classifier analysis has shown promise in the toxicogenomic area by identifying biomarkers to predict unknown samples. Our study focuses on identifying gene markers with better sensitivity and specificity, building predictive models to distinguish metals from non-metal toxicants, and individual metal from one another, and furthermore helping understand underlying toxic mechanisms.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Based on an independent dataset test, using only 15 gene markers, we were able to distinguish metals from non-metal toxicants with 100% accuracy. Of these, 6 and 9 genes were commonly down- and up-regulated respectively by most of the metals. 8 out of 15 genes belong to membrane protein coding genes. Function well annotated genes in the list include <jats:italic>ADORA2B<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>ARNT<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>S100G<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>DIO3<\/jats:italic>. Also, a 10-gene marker list was identified that can discriminate an individual metal from one another with 100% accuracy. We could find a specific gene marker for each metal in the 10-gene marker list. Function well annotated genes in this list include <jats:italic>GSTM2<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>HSD11B<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>AREG<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>C8B<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Our findings suggest that using a microarray classifier analysis, not only can we create diagnostic classifiers for predicting an exact metal contaminant from a large scale of contaminant pool with high prediction accuracy, but we can also identify valuable biomarkers to help understand the common and underlying toxic mechanisms induced by metals.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12859-020-3525-7","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,3]],"date-time":"2020-12-03T10:03:49Z","timestamp":1606989829000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Development of predicitve models to distinguish metals from non-metal toxicants, and individual metal from one another"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Zongtao","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Yuanyuan","family":"Fu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Junmei","family":"Ai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jicai","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Youping","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,3]]},"reference":[{"issue":"5865","key":"3525_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"906","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1154619","volume":"319","author":"FS Collins","year":"2008","unstructured":"Collins FS, Gray GM, Bucher JR. 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