Analysis of the expression levels of THBS1 in the two main subtypes of NSCLC in the same microarray dataset revealed decreased mRNA levels of THBS1 in both lung AD (a fold change of -2.159) (Fig 1B and Table 1) and lung SCC (a fold change of -1.968) (S3 Table), although the data did not satisfy the threshold criteria set in this study. The gene discussed is THBS1; the disease is non-small cell lung carcinoma.