Decoding core genes and intercellular communication in osteosarcoma: bioinformatic investigation and immune cell profiling for diagnostic and therapeutic insights

The study focusing on developing an artificial neural network (ANN) model in accordance with genetic characteristics of osteosarcoma (OS) to accurately speculate OS cases. In the present study, we identified 467 DEGs through differentially acting gene investigation and that 345 exist suppressed and 122 exist stimulated. The resultant of GO enrichment analysis displayed the functions mainly included T cell activation, secretory granule lumen, antioxidant property etc. The pathways identified in the differentially acting genes (DAGs) were greatly interacted with Phagosome, Staphylococcus aureus infection, Human T - cell leukemia virus 1 infection, etc. Next, we found out top ten hub DEGs (HDEGs) by PPI network analysis. In addition, through the validation of ANN itself and Test set samples, it was proved that the prediction performance of our constructed ANN model is accurate and reliable. Finally, the penetration of immune cells and its interaction with target CDEGs were examined, and variations in penetration of 22 types of immune cells amongst different classes were found, additionally correlation amongst immune cells and between immune cells and target CDEGs. Furthermore, we analyzed the expression of the top two CDEGs (YES1 and MFNG) in OS tissues and normal tissues, also the interrelationship among the activity of YES1 and MFNG in OS tissues and clinicopathological properties of OS cases. Furthermore, the correlation analysis between the top two CDEGs and immune infiltrating cells was performed in OS tissues. Our research results revealed that CDEGs-based ANN model is effective at predicting OS patients, which facilitates early diagnosis and treatment of OS.