Fig. 1



(A)Volcano plot of differentially expressed genes; (B)Heatmap displaying the expression levels of the top 10 up- and down-regulated genes, with higher expression levels shown in red and lower levels in blue; (C)Box plot of seven significantly differentially expressed ERGs; (D)Distribution of ssGSEA scores for gene sets with differential directionality in disease samples versus healthy controls in the training set; (E)Cluster analysis dendrogram of samples from the training set GSE43179; (F)Screening of the soft-thresholding power for the WGCNA co-expression network (threshold β value set to 19). (G)Screening of the soft-thresholding power for the WGCNA co-expression network (threshold β value set to 19);(H–J)Module assignment of the gene co-expression network, distinguished by different colors, identifying a total of six co-expression modules; (K)Venn diagram showing the intersection of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) from the transcriptome and ERG module genes, resulting in 23 differentially expressed ERGs; (L)GO and KEGG enrichment analysis of the 23 candidate genes23. (M)GO and KEGG enrichment analysis of the 23 candidate genes2425; (N)Protein–protein interaction (PPI) network.