| PD | Parkinson’s disease |
| OCT | optimum cutting temperature |
| LCM | laser capture microdissection |
| FPKM | fragments per kilobase of transcript per million |
| PCA | principal components analysis |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| GO | Gene ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes databases |
| WGCNA | weighted gene co-expression network analysis |
| t-SNE | t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding |
| MM | module membership |
| GS | gene significance |