UCHL1 and colon adenocarcinoma: Among them, PLEC exhibited a pronounced contribution to the utility of the model in the TCGA database and UCHL1 has excellent diagnostic potential with an area under the curve (AUC) greater than 0.9.<h4>Conclusions</h4>The perspective of bioinformatics analysis provides robust evidence suggested that UCHL1, HSPA1A, MAPK8, and PLEC genes are the prognostic biomarkers of COAD, the predictive model established herein provides a novel tool for risk stratification in clinical practice and serves as a foundation for further investigation into its underlying molecular mechanisms.