“…Furthermore, the integration of data from multiple cohorts is essential to generate robust and reproducible results (Beuchel et al, 2021). Here, we detected 20 radio-responsive genes and 17 of these 20 genes (i.e., APOBEC3H, ASCC3, DDB2, E2F7, FDXR, FHL2, GADD45, LIG1, MDM2, PCNA, PHPT1, POLH, RPS27L, SLC4A11, TNFSF4, VWCE, and ZNF79) have been previously identified as IR responsive genes (Kang et al, 2003;Dressman et al, 2007;Fachin et al, 2007;Gruel et al, 2008;Meadows et al, 2008;Paul and Amundson, 2008;Henríquez Hernández et al, 2009;Kabacik et al, 2011;Mayer et al, 2011;Pogosova-Agadjanyan et al, 2011;Templin et al, 2011;Wen et al, 2011;Boldt et al, 2012;Knops et al, 2012;El-Saghire et al, 2013;Nosel et al, 2013;Paul et al, 2013;Versteyhe et al, 2013;Beer et al, 2014;Vinoth et al, 2014;Ghandhi et al, 2015;Macaeva et al, 2016;Rouchka et al, 2016;Broustas et al, 2017;Lacombe et al, 2018;Piotto et al, 2018;Ghandhi et al, 2019;Cruz-Garcia et al, 2020a;Cruz-Garcia et al, 2020b;Li et al, 2022). Two of the three remaining DEGs (i.e., CCL27 and GLS2) have also been described in the context of DNA damage or of oxidative stress, which is also related to radiation as radiationinduced reactive oxygen species (ROS).…”