As illustrated in Figure 2, the overlapped genes between renal fibrosis and skin fibrosis included CCL2, SIRT1, KLF5, PPARG, AKT1, SHH, NOTCH, SMAD7, TGFB1, CTNNB1, MMP2, CTGF, FN1, ITGB1, PLAUR, MMP14, NOX4, and COL1A1. Here, TGFB1 is linked to renal fibrosis.