Fig. 2

Construction of Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Identification of Modules. a Scale independence of network topology for different soft-thresholding powers. The approximate scale-free topology can be attained at the soft-thresholding power of 5. b Mean connectivity of network topology for different soft-thresholding powers. Numbers in the plots indicate the corresponding soft thresholding powers. c DEGs clustering and module screening based on gene expression pattern. The top was gene dendrogram and the bottom was genes’ modules with different colors. A total of 21 modules were identified