Identification of Potential Core Genes in Parkinson’s Disease Using Bioinformatics Analysis

Table 2

List of top 10 differentially expressed genes with higher degrees in the PPI network.

Gene	Description	Degree
GNG2	Up	27
GNG3	Down	24
PRKACA	Up	23
HRAS	Up	23
MAPK1	Down	22
HSPA8	Up	20
FPR1	Down	19
ATP5B	Down	19
PSAP	Up	18
GABBR2	Up	18

Degree was used for describing the importance of protein nodes in the network. The higher the degree was, the more important the nodes were in the network.