BNIP3 and Alzheimer disease: We first screened and identified 12 ferroptosis-related genes (ATG3, BNIP3, DDIT3, FH, GABARAPL1, MAPK14, SOCS1, SP1, STAT3, TNFAIP3, UBC, and ULK) via a random forest classifier, which was differentially expressed between the AD and normal control groups.