We found that the nine genes were involved in important signaling pathways of tumorigenesis and development, such as Salmonella infection, Janus kinase (JAK)/signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) signaling, focal adhesion, proteoglycans in cancer, cytokine-cytokine receptor interactions, etc. All the results of the KEGG pathway analysis and the top 10 results of the GO analysis are shown in Supplementary Tables 2 and 3. Here, SOAT1 is linked to Salmonella Infections.