LAMA1 and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) analysis (Fig. 8A), gene set variation analysis (GSVA) (Fig. 8B), gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) (Fig. 8C) indicated that high LAMA1 expression was closely and positively related to EMT activation, indicating that EMT may account for the oncogenic role of LAMA1 in ESCC.