Table 3.
Group | Sample Type | WGCNA Module Selected | Correlation of Gene Expression With Phase of Infections and DOI | Correlation of Gene Expression With Severity and RSV Load | Top 3 GO- Functional Enrichment Pathway |
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Severe | NP | Turquoise | Negative | Positive | Immune response, immune system process, defense response |
Brown | Negative | Positive | Immune response, immune system process, defense response, innate immune response | ||
Dark-turquoise | Negative | Positive | Immune system process, immune response, T-cell aggregation | ||
Green | Positive | Negative | Regulation of signal transduction, enzyme- linked receptor protein signaling pathway | ||
Blood | Floral-white | Negative | Positive | Response to type I interferon, cellular response to type I interferon, innate immune response | |
Black | Negative | Positive | Immune system process, response to stress, defense response | ||
Light-pink4 | Negative | Positive | Vesicle-mediated transport, Toll-like receptor 4 signaling pathway, endomembrane system organization | ||
Nonsevere | NP | Blue | Positive | Negative | Cilium morphogenesis, cilium assembly, cilium organization |
Yellow | Positive | Negative | Oxoacid metabolic process, carboxylic acid metabolic process, organic acid metabolic process | ||
Royal-blue | Positive | Negative | Mitotic cell cycle, cell cycle | ||
Blood | Turquoise | Positive | Negative | Heme metabolic process, heme biosynthesis process, locomotion | |
Antique-white4 | Positive | Negative | Endothelial cell-cell adhesion, leukotriene metabolic process |
Abbreviations: DOI, day of illness; GO, gene ontology; NP, nasopharyngeal swabs; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; WGCNA, weighted gene coexpression network analysis.