Fig. 4

The PPI networks of all the DEGs. They were edited in Cytoscape with continuous mapping so the colour and size of the node reflected the connection degree. This meant the redder, larger nodes represent a higher connection degree, while the bluer, smaller nodes represent a lower connection degree. For those DEGs, the maximum threshold for coexpression was set as 0.999 and the minimum threshold as 0.0, with values around 0.5019 coloured whiter. The top 10 nodes with the highest connection degrees are known as the hub genes in the PPI networks. a the human data set, GSE17579. b mouse data set, GSE18514