“…Whether in the TCGA-LUAD cohort or the three GEO cohorts for external verification, the seven-gene signature exhibited excellent performance for LUAD prognosis. Although previous studies have shown that the signature genes were related to a variety of cancers (liver cancer, breast cancer, oral cancer, and others), there have been few studies on the mechanism through which they participate in cancer progression (Li et al, 2017;Khowal et al, 2018;Uddin et al, 2018;Yao et al, 2019). Migration, proliferation, energy metabolism, and autophagy are all considered regulatory targets, but the underlying mechanism remains to be further elucidated (Hosgood et al, 2008;Wei et al, 2015;Jaiswal et al, 2018;Ma et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2021).…”