Investigation of Potential Genetic Biomarkers and Molecular Mechanism of Ulcerative Colitis Utilizing Bioinformatics Analysis

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The heat map, volcano plot, and weighted gene coexpression network analysis (WGCNA) of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the UC group and the control group. (a) The heatmap for DEGs. (b) The volcano plot for DEGs. Gray dots represent the genes that are not differentially expressed, red dots represent the upregulated genes, and the blue dots represent the downregulated genes. (c) Determination of the soft threshold in the WGCNA algorithm. The approximate scale-free fit index can be attained at the soft-thresholding power of 6. (d) Clustering dendrograms showing 4 modules that contain a group of highly connected genes. Each designated color represents a certain gene module.

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