Table 2.

The top 20 genes most closely related to the seven hub genes in LUSC

No.	GBP1		ITGAM		CSF1		SPP1		COL1A1		LAMB1		THBS1
	genes	CC	genes	CC	genes	CC	genes	CC	genes	CC	genes	CC	genes	CC
1	GBP2	0.77	SH2B3	0.73	GPR84	0.73	CBR3	0.61	COL5A1	0.96	FSTL1	0.61	BICC1	0.70
2	BATF2	0.75	NFAM1	0.69	CSF1R	0.72	SRXN1	0.59	COL3A1	0.95	LEPRE1	0.59	CRISPLD2	0.70
3	STAT1	0.75	ITGB2	0.68	CACNA2D4	0.68	GCLM	0.57	COL6A3	0.92	FN1	0.56	ITGA1	0.67
4	TAP1	0.74	DOCK10	0.68	CLEC5A	0.67	EPHX1	0.56	COL1A2	0.91	LTBP1	0.54	CTGF	0.63
5	UBE2L6	0.73	LGALS9	0.67	HIC1	0.65	PRDX1	0.55	COL5A2	0.91	LAMC1	0.54	CYR61	0.62
6	IRF1	0.73	PILRA	0.66	CD14	0.65	GSR	0.55	PDGFRB	0.9	TCF7L1	0.53	SPON1	0.62
7	GBP5	0.73	SIGLEC9	0.66	RNASE2	0.64	OSGIN1	0.54	ADAMTS2	0.89	CRIM1	0.53	IL1R1	0.61
8	GBP4	0.71	NCKAP1L	0.66	AGAP2	0.63	AKR1B10	0.52	SPARC	0.88	LAMA5	0.53	LAMA4	0.61
9	APOL6	0.70	IL21R	0.65	STAB1	0.62	G6PD	0.51	NID2	0.87	PXDN	0.52	GREM1	0.61
10	PRF1	0.68	HK3	0.65	ABI3	0.62	NQO1	0.51	BGN	0.87	AFAP1	0.52	LRRC32	0.61
11	LAP3	0.68	FCGR2C	0.64	ADAP2	0.62	AKR1C3	0.51	COL11A1	0.87	RBM9	0.52	MRVI1	0.60
12	PSMB9	0.68	TNFRSF1B	0.64	CD300C	0.62	MAP2	0.49	COL6A2	0.87	C1QTNF6	0.52	FGF7	0.60
13	CXCL9	0.67	LILRB4	0.64	ENG	0.62	CBR1	0.49	MMP2	0.86	LATS2	0.52	COL6A3	0.60
14	PSME2	0.67	LRRC25	0.64	LRRC25	0.62	CYP4F3	0.49	LRRC15	0.86	FBLN1	0.52	ACTA2	0.60
15	CCL4	0.67	SPI1	0.63	TNFRSF1B	0.61	CES1	0.49	AEBP1	0.86	ARHGEF17	0.51	ZEB2	0.60
16	IL18BP	0.66	STAT5A	0.63	COL8A1	0.61	ME1	0.49	THBS2	0.85	CDK14	0.50	C13orf33	0.60
17	B2M	0.65	CD4	0.63	NLRP3	0.61	TXNRD1	0.48	TIMP2	0.85	GLI3	0.50	NID2	0.59
18	LAG3	0.65	CD74	0.63	SIGLEC9	0.61	ASPH	0.48	ZNF469	0.85	IGDCC4	0.50	CD93	0.59
19	WARS	0.65	HLA-DOA	0.62	ITGB7	0.60	AKR1C1	0.47	FNDC1	0.84	KIAA1462	0.49	PMP22	0.59
20	HLA-E	0.65	CLEC5A	0.62	SLC7A7	0.59	TDP2	0.47	POSTN	0.84	TGFB3	0.49	COL3A1	0.59

Note: CC correlation coefficient.