MEG3 and staphylococcus aureus infection: We also identified two lncRNAs previously reported to be associated with MM, MEG3(16, 29), and H19,(30, 31) Supplemental Table 1. Next, we performed pathway analysis on all differentially expressed RNAs in short PFS to identify highly enriched gene sets associated with, but not limited to, staphylococcus aureus infection (p = 6.75e−10), transcriptional dysregulation in cancer (p = 1.05e−06), cytokine-cytokine receptor interactions (p = 1.42e−05), IL-17 signaling pathway (p = 2.31e−05), and ECM-receptor interactions (p = 5.5e−05), Figure 1c.