Fig. 1
From: Apelin (APLN) is a biomarker contributing to the diagnosis and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

Establishment of a 36-gene dataset for model construction. (A) Principal component analysis (PCA) on TCGA-LIHC dataset after sample filtering. (B) Volcano plot of DEGs between HCC and normal liver tissues. (C) Venn diagram demonstrating the selection of 36 genes for subsequent model development. (D,E) GO/KEGG enrichment analysis of the identified 36 genes. (F) PPI network analysis of 36 genes, 29 of which were related (combined score > 0.4).