Table 3.

Correlation analysis between hepcidin and markers of immune cells in TIMER

Description	Gene markers	KIRC
		None		Purity
		Cor	P	Cor	P
B cell	CD19	0.376	***	-0.213	***
	CD79A	0.425	***	0.375	***
T cell (general)	CD3D	0.440	***	0.435	***
	CD3E	0.422	***	0.452	***
	CD2	0.429	***	0.437	***
CD8+ T cell	CD8A	0.382	***	0.443	***
	CD8B	0.370	***	0.394	***
Monocyte	CD86	0.546	***	0.379	***
	CD14	0.598	***	0.565	***
	CSF1R	0.443	***	0.598	***
TAM	CD11b	0.434	***	-0.114	*
	CCL2	0.016	0.718	0.455	***
	CD68	0.456	***	-0.013	0.777
	IL10	0.417	***	0.491	***
M1 Macrophage	NOS2	-0.273	***	0.413	***
	IRF5	0.274	***	-0.287	***
	PTGS2	0.062	0.151	0.277	***
	CD40	0.002	0.958	0.051	0.274
M2 Macrophage	MRC1	-0.064	0.137	-0.008	0.866
	CD163	0.343	***	-0.068	0.145
	VSIG4	0.483	***	0.371	***
	CD200R1	0.360	***	0.510	***
	MS4A4A	0.412	***	0.358	***
Neutrophils	CEACAM8	-0.107	*	0.421	***
	CCR7	0.366	***	0.456	***
Natural killer cell	KIR3DL1	-0.135	**	0.383	***
	KIR3DL2	0.010	0.825	-0.104	*
	KIR3DL3	0.026	0.550	0.024	0.614
	KIR2DS4	-0.096	*	0.022	0.631
Dendritic cell	HLA-DPB1	0.434	***	-0.077	0.100
	HLA-DRA	0.420	***	0.457	***
	HLA-DPA1	0.367	***	0.451	***
	NRP1	-0.242	***	0.049	0.290
	ITGAX	0.461	***	-0.261	***

*P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001.