Construction and Comprehensive Analyses of a Competing Endogenous RNA Network in Tumor-Node-Metastasis Stage I Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Figure 1

Specific lncRNA-related ceRNA network and characteristics of the constituent lncRNAs in stage I HCC patients. The volcano plot shows the expression profiles of mRNAs (a), lncRNAs (b), and miRNAs (c). Red dots indicate upregulated RNAs, and green dots indicate downregulated RNAs. Heatmaps of differentially expressed RNAs in different samples: (d) mRNAs, (e) lncRNAs, and (f) miRNAs. The y-axis represents RNAs and the x-axis represents patient samples; red denotes upregulation and green denotes downregulation. ceRNA: competing endogenous RNA; HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma; lncRNA: long noncoding RNA; miRNA: microRNA.

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