
This study is aimed at systematically characterizing the endometriosis‐associated genes based on text mining and at annotating the functions, pathways, and networks of endometriosis‐associated hub genes. We extracted endometriosis‐associated abstracts published between 1970 and 2020 from the PubMed database. A neural‐named entity recognition and multitype normalization tool for biomedical text mining was used to recognize and normalize the genes and proteins embedded in the abstracts. Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analyses were conducted to annotate the functions and pathways of recognized genes. Protein‐protein interaction analysis was conducted on the genes significantly cooccurring with endometriosis to identify the endometriosis‐associated hub genes. A total of 433 genes were recognized as endometriosis‐associated genes (P < 0.05), and 154 pathways were significantly enriched (P < 0.05). A network of endometriosis‐associated genes with 278 gene nodes and 987 interaction links was established. The 15 proteins that interacted with 20 or more other proteins were identified as the hub proteins of the endometriosis‐associated protein network. This study provides novel insights into the hub genes that play key roles in the development of endometriosis and have implications for developing targeted interventions for endometriosis.
Gene Ontology, Endometriosis, Data Mining, ELAV-Like Protein 2, Humans, Female, Gene Regulatory Networks, Review Article, Protein Interaction Maps, Signal Transduction
Gene Ontology, Endometriosis, Data Mining, ELAV-Like Protein 2, Humans, Female, Gene Regulatory Networks, Review Article, Protein Interaction Maps, Signal Transduction
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 3 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
