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The disease overlapping manifestations with a set of symptomatically like diseases such as bacterial and viral infections, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Henoch-Sch\u00f6nlein purpura, infection of unknown etiology, group-A streptococcal and adenoviral infections, and incomplete KD could lead to misdiagnosis of the disease.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In the present study, we applied weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) to identify network modules of co-expressed genes in GSE73464 and also, limma package was used to identify the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in KD expression arrays composed of GSE73464, GSE18606, GSE109351, and GSE68004. By merging the results of WGCNA and limma, we detected hub genes. Then, analyzed the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of 16 patients and 8 control subjects using Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) to evaluate the previous results.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      We assessed the diagnostic potency of the screened genes by plotting the area under curve (AUC). We finally identified 2 genes\n                      <jats:italic>CASP5(Caspase 5)<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>CR1<\/jats:italic>\n                      (Complement C3b\/C4b Receptor 1) which were shown to potentially discriminate KD from other similar diseases and also from healthy people.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The results of RT-PCR and AUC confirmed the diagnostic potentials of two suggested biomarkers for KD.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12887-021-03003-5","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,11]],"date-time":"2021-12-11T05:02:34Z","timestamp":1639198954000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["CASP5 and CR1 as potential biomarkers for Kawasaki disease: an Integrated Bioinformatics-Experimental Study"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Yazdan","family":"Rahmati","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hasan","family":"Mollanoori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sajad","family":"Najafi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sajjad","family":"Esmaeili","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mohammad Reza","family":"Alivand","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"3003_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Jennette JC, Falk R, Bacon P, Basu N, Cid M, Ferrario F, et al. 2012 revised international chapel hill consensus conference nomenclature of vasculitides. 2013.","DOI":"10.1007\/s10157-013-0869-6"},{"key":"3003_CR2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Holman RC, Belay ED, Christensen KY, Folkema AM, Steiner CA, Schonberger L. 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