The outcome of the entire feature selection process was a list of 13 genes: ACTC1, ATP2A2, CH507-513H4.3, MT-RNR1, MYH7, MYH6, MYL4, NEAT1, NPPA, SNORD3A, SNORD3B-1, SNORD3B-2 and SNORD3C (where ATP2A2 and MYL4 were also identified by differential expression analysis), which we called DCM-related panel genes. Here, NPPA is linked to familial dilated cardiomyopathy.