Figure 1.
Validation of the differences of six directly immune-related DEGs using RT-qPCR. (A-D) Compared with NMG, significantly higher expression of BTLA (P=0.022), CCR7 (P=0.0018), TNFRSF25 (P=0.013) and ANKRD55 (P=0.0026) was observed in TAMG. (E,F) The difference in expression of ATM (P=0.082) and SFTPB (P=0.11) was not significant between the two groups. *, P<0.05; **, P<0.01. DEG, differentially expressed gene; RT-qPCR, reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction; NMG, non-myasthenia gravis thymoma; TAMG, thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis.