The findings of the differential analysis revealed that the expression levels of ERSRCGs in the IPF dataset GSE24206: CTH, PKM, IDI1, and SPTSSA as well as the degrees of these genes’ expression in the IPF group and Control group, were statistically significant (p-value < 0.001) (Fig 5A). The gene discussed is SPTSSA; the disease is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.