We confirmed that RA was correlated with the upregulation of the PPI network hub genes, such as CXCL13, CXCL6, CCR5, CXCR5, CCR2, CXCL3, and CXCL10, and the downregulation of the PPI network hub gene such as SSTR1. The gene discussed is CXCL6; the disease is rheumatoid arthritis.