Significance of Immune-Related Genes in the Diagnosis and Classification of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

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(a) Association between infiltrating immune cells and immune patterns. MDSC, neutrophil, plasmacytoid dendritic cell, and type 17 T helper cell were significantly highly expressed in immune cluster B, and CD56 bright natural killer cell was significantly highly expressed in immune cluster A. (b) The ssGSEA was used to compute the abundance of immune cells and to assess the association between 11 IRGs and immune cells.

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