Fig. 2

Comparing differently changed genes. A. Gene expression of several key proteins. Dot plot displaying the normalized count of ACE2, TMPRSS2 SARS-CoV-2 entry proteins expression, ARG1, FOXP3, CRTAM, FADD, HGF and IL-10 key proteins expression. Asterisks show significant difference (one-way anova test, Significance codes: >0.05 ‘ns’, < 0.05 ‘*’, < 0.01 ‘**’, < 0.001 ‘***’, 0 ‘****’). Points represent individual patient data. P-values were calculated using a two-tailed Wilcoxon test. B. VIP represents the contribution score of the DEGs that mostly contribute to the differentiation between COVID-19 patients severity groups. The top 30 discriminatory genes are listed from top to bottom, ranked by their VIP scores ≥ 1.3. Changes in expression for each gene are presented, wherein blue: represents decrease and red: represents increase in transcript expression.