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Integrative multi-omics analysis unravels the metabolic landscape and reveals serum biomarkers for early diagnosis of hyperuricemia

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Xin Sun
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Baoying Gong
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Yaojia Sun
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Hongqiao Sun
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Bin Zhang
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Le Yang
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Wenkai Wang
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Qubo Chen *
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Shuyun Wei
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Hao Wen
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Ruicheng Liu
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Ling Kong
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Ying Han
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Ju Guo
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Xijun Wang *
DOI:10.1007/s11306-026-02509-2delete
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Abstract

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Hyperuricemia (HUA) is a major risk factor for gout and multiple metabolic disorders. Although serum uric acid (UA) is the gold standard for HUA diagnosis, it fails to reflect early metabolic disturbances and shows limited predictive value for asymptomatic HUA. This study sought to elucidate the pathological mechanisms underlying HUA and identify novel diagnostic biomarkers beyond UA. This study enrolled 195 patients with HUA and 98 healthy controls. Global metabolomics and proteomics profiling were performed to characterize molecular alterations underlying HUA. Based on the biological relevance of the shared dysregulated pathways, a pathway correlation network was constructed to elucidate the pathological mechanisms driving HUA initiation and progression. Furthermore, diagnostic biomarkers for HUA were identified using machine learning algorithms, and were validated with an external cohort. HUA patients exhibited distinct metabolic and proteomic profiles compared with healthy controls. Integrated multi-omics pathway analysis revealed that peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor signaling pathway, arachidonic acid metabolism, purine metabolism, pyrimidine metabolism and sphingolipid signaling pathway were significantly dysregulated in HUA. Among them, arachidonic acid metabolism was identified as a hub pathway involved in HUA progression. Furthermore, a metabolite panel consisting of cysteine-S-sulfate, glycerophosphocholine and 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid was screened by machine learning and validated in an independent cohort, which showed slightly higher diagnostic performance for HUA than UA. This study reveals the core metabolic and protein regulatory networks of HUA, and identifies a novel serum metabolite panel for the diagnosis of HUA. These findings provide new insights for improved clinical diagnosis and management.
Keywords:
Hyperuricemia
Metabolomics
Proteomics
Multi-omics
Machine learning
Diagnostic biomarker

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Metabolomics cover
Metabolomics
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Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis
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guangzhou higher education mega center
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