Liying Qiao

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT The datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available from the author (Yunfeng Xi) upon reasonable request. The code for this study is available in a GitHub repository (https://github.com/wyt-wangyut/Code_esophageal_cancer_InnerMongolia). Supporting Information Filename Description ijc70236-sup-0001-Supinfo.pdfPDF document, 1.5 MB Table S1.

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3. Results 3.1. Screening for DEGs by Comparing IUGR and Normal Samples First, we corrected and merged the gene expression profile data in the GSE114580 and GSE64578 datasets (Figure 2A). Next, we performed differential gene expression analysis by comparing the 12 IUGRs with 11 normal tissues in the combined dataset and obtained 102 differentially expressed genes (Table S1), of which 50 were upregulated and 52 were downregulated (Figure 2B).