We then performed GSVA on the prognostic DEGs’ (GGCT, COL11A1, PPARGC1A, GPM6A, ITPR1, and LRRK2) expressions related to mitophagy in TCGA-ThyC and GSE3678 datasets to investigate changes in their expression levels between cancerous and neighboring non-cancerous tissue samples. Here, PPARGC1A is linked to thymic carcinoma.