Fig 1: The expression levels of hub genes in GC. (A) The mRNA expression was correlated with pathological T stages. The asterisk represents the comparison between a specific stage and the normal group, or between different stages. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001. (B) Representative western blotting for COL10A1, BGN, and FAP proteins in 4 paired gastric tumor (T) and adjacent non-tumor tissues (N) with progressive stages from T1 to T4.