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Table 3 Correlation between E74-like ETS transcription factor 3 and related gene markers of immune cells in TIMER

Description	Gene markers	None correlation coefficient	P value	Purity correlation coefficient	P value
CD8+ T cell	CD8A	-0.150	0.0023	-0.124	0.0156
	CD8B	-0.135	0.0057	-0.126	0.0142
T cell	CD3D	-0.203		-0.168	0.0011
	CD3E	-0.150	0.0021	-0.112	0.0293
	CD2	-0.177		-0.139	0.0068
B cell	CD19	-0.220		-0.184
	CD79A	-0.220		-0.174
Monocyte	CD86	-0.180		-0.158	0.0021
TAM	CCL2	-0.343		-0.331
	CD68	0.168		0.201
	IL10	-0.189		-0.161	0.0017
M1 macrophage	IRF5	-0.018	0.7209	-0.012	0.8206
M2 macrophage	CD163	-0.120	0.0148	-0.099	0.0538
	VSIG4	-0.176		-0.167	0.0011
	MS4A4A	-0.211		-0.197
Neutrophils	CCR7	-0.242		-0.199
NK cell	KIR2DL1	-0.120	0.0147	-0.108	0.0359
	KIR2DL3	-0.100	0.0417	-0.069	0.1820
	KIR2DL4	0.003	0.9467	0.028	0.5866
	KIR3DL1	-0.120	0.0143	-0.092	0.0725
	KIR3DL2	-0.091	0.0632	-0.066	0.1979
	KIR3DL3	0.156	0.0015	0.152	0.0029
	KIR2DS4	-0.057	0.2480	-0.038	0.4560
DC	HLA-DPB1	-0.137	0.0053	-0.094	0.0676
	HLA-DQB1	-0.068	0.1669	-0.011	0.8379
	HLA-DRA	-0.071	0.1492	-0.030	0.5560
	HLA-DPA1	-0.085	0.0831	-0.041	0.4245
Th1 cell	STAT4	-0.232		-0.191
	STAT1	0.087	0.0766	0.120	0.0191
Th2 cell	GATA3	-0.309		-0.297
	STAT6	0.210		0.205
	STAT5A	-0.018	0.7152	-0.007	0.8874
	IL13	-0.068	0.1688	-0.045	0.3857
Th17 cell	STAT3	0.063	0.2023	0.076	0.1417
	IL17A	0.138	0.0048	0.155	0.0024
Treg	FOXP3	-0.031	0.5313	0.022	0.6710
	CCR8	-0.062	0.2108	-0.033	0.5251
	STAT5B	-0.114	0.0204	-0.100	0.0508
T-cell exhaustion	CTLA4	-0.143	0.0035	-0.112	0.0297
	LAG3	-0.109	0.0258	-0.081	0.1163
	GZMB	-0.044	0.3673	-0.003	0.9570

TAM: Tumor-associated macrophage; NK: Natural killer; DC: Dendritic cells; Th: T helper; Treg: Regulatory T cells.