Among them, 14 genes were associated with the poor survival of ccRCC patients (Supplementary Fig. S1a), namely, TGFB1, LAMA5, PTHLH, FOXM1, TIMP1, CAV1, CDKN2A, ITGA5, CTSZ, LOX, PLAUR, MMP9, LOXL2 and FSCN1; the other 9 genes were related to a better prognosis (Supplementary Fig. S1c). Here, PLAUR is linked to nonpapillary renal cell carcinoma.