The top three pathways that were associated with the highest number of differentially expressed genes were lipid and atherosclerosis pathway (number of differentially expressed genes/number of all genes = 6/32, P = 6.014e-4) (Fig. 4), pathways of neurodegeneration-multiple diseases (number of differentially expressed genes/number of all genes = 5/76, P = 0.004), and C-type lectin receptor signaling pathway (number of differentially expressed genes/number of all genes = 4/8, P = 1.064e-5). This evidence concerns the gene CLEC4D and atherosclerosis.