Fig. 1From: Identification of potential therapeutic targets for atherosclerosis by analysing the gene signature related to different immune cells and immune regulators in atheromatous plaquesAnalysis pipeline of expression values from microarrays. The expression values of GSE100927 and GSE28829 were analysed according to the pipeline. The atheromatous plaques in GSE100927 and GSE28829 were divided into a cluster with low immune scores (ImmuneScoreL cluster) and a cluster with high immune scores (ImmuneScoreH cluster) according to the degree of immune infiltration. The distribution of clinically proven early-stage and advanced-stage carotid plaques in GSE28829 was statistically significant (p < 0.001), and the distribution of atheromatous plaques from different peripheral arteries in GSE100927 was statistically significant (p < 0.001)Back to article page