We identified 59 overrepresented PANTHER pathways in our cochlear pericyte dataset (Table 1), including angiogenesis related (‘CCKR signaling map,’ P06959; ‘Angiogenesis,’ P00005; ‘VEGF signaling pathway,’ P00056) and neurodegeneration related (‘Alzheimer disease-presenilin pathway,’ P00004; ‘Alzheimer disease-amyloid secretase pathway,’ P00003; ‘5HT2 type receptor mediated signaling pathway,’ P04374) pathways among the top 20 statistically significant results (Figure 5A). The gene discussed is VEGFA; the disease is Alzheimer disease.