Similarly, from GSE31821 dataset of the patients with AF and healthy subjects, it was found that for the BP term, the DEGs were mostly enriched in the extracellular matrix (GO:0030198, p = 2.07E-06); while for MF term, they were mostly enriched in the cadherin binding in cell-cell adhesion (GO:0098641, p = 1.62E-06), and lastly for CC term, they were mostly enriched in the extracellular exosome (GO: 0070062, p = 4.89E-11) (Table 3(Tab. Here, CDH17 is linked to atrial fibrillation.