SOAT1 and hepatitis C virus infection: We found that STAT-related signaling pathways were closely related to 8 of the top 15 KEGG pathways, such as “Pathways in cancer” (Verhoeven et al., 2020), “Hepatitis C” (Heim et al., 2016) and “Epstein-Barr virus infection” (Jangra et al., 2021) (Figure 2C).