Supplemental Table 2 Literature verification of the gene sets obtained from the cent-stat method in AD GO term GO term ACTIN BINDING[1] NEGATIVE REGULATION OF PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH[2] ACTIN CYTOSKELETON ORGANIZATION AND NEGATIVE REGULATION BIOGENESIS[3] METABOLIC PROCESS ACTIN FILAMENT BASED PROCESS NEGATIVE OF REGULATION RNA OF TRANSCRIPTION[4] ACTIN FILAMENT BINDING[1] NEGATIVE REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION DNA DEPENDENT ACTIN FILAMENT BUNDLE FORMATION NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT[5] ACTIN FILAMENT ORGANIZATION[6] NEUROPEPTIDE HORMONE ACTIVITY[4] ACTIVATION OF NF KAPPAB TRANSCRIPTION NUCLEAR CHROMOSOME PART FACTOR[7] AEROBIC RESPIRATION[8] NUCLEAR IMPORT[9] ANTI APOPTOSIS[10] NUCLEAR LUMEN APOPTOSIS GO NUCLEAR TRANSPORT[11] CELLULAR LOCALIZATION[12] NUCLEOBASE NUCLEOSIDE NUCLEOTIDE KINASE ACTIVITY[13] CELLULAR RESPIRATION[14, 15] CENTRAL NERVOUS NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT[16] SYSTEM NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATASE DEVELOPMENT[17] ACTIVITY[18] CHROMATIN MODIFICATION[19] ORGANELLE ENVELOPE[20] CHROMOSOME ORGANIZATION AND ORGANELLE INNER MEMBRANE[4] BIOGENESIS[21] CLATHRIN COATED VESICLE[22] ORGANELLE LUMEN COATED VESICLE[23] ORGANELLE MEMBRANE[24] COFACTOR CATABOLIC PROCESS[25] ORGANELLE ORGANIZATION AND BIOGENESIS COVALENT CHROMATIN MODIFICATION PEPTIDE METABOLIC PROCESS CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE BOUND VESICLE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE ACTIVITY PHOSPHATE GROUP AS ACCEPTOR CYTOPLASMIC VESICLE[26] POSITIVE REGULATION OF BINDING CYTOSKELETAL PROTEIN BINDING POSITIVE REGULATION OF DNA BINDING CYTOSKELETON[27] POSITIVE REGULATION OF I KAPPAB KINASE NF KAPPAB CASCADE CYTOSKELETON ORGANIZATION AND POSITIVE BIOGENESIS[28] REGULATION OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION ENERGY DERIVATION BY OXIDATION OF POSITIVE REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION ORGANIC COMPOUNDS[29, 30] FACTOR ACTIVITY ENVELOPE[31] POST TRANSLATIONAL PROTEIN MODIFICATION[32] ESTABLISHMENT AND OR MAINTENANCE OF PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH[33] CHROMATIN ARCHITECTURE ESTABLISHMENT OF CELLULAR PROTEIN IMPORT LOCALIZATION[34] ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTEIN PROTEIN KINASE CASCADE[36] LOCALIZATION[35] GTP BINDING[37] PROTEIN LOCALIZATION[35] GTPASE ACTIVITY[38] PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE ACTIVITY[39] HISTONE MODIFICATION[40] HYDROLASE ACTIVITY PROTEIN TARGETING ACTING ON ACID PROTON TRANSPORTING TWO SECTOR ANHYDRIDES ATPASE COMPLEX[41] I KAPPAB KINASE NF KAPPAB CASCADE[42] PYROPHOSPHATASE ACTIVITY[43] IDENTICAL PROTEIN BINDING[44] REGULATION OF APOPTOSIS[45] INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT[46] REGULATION OF BINDING[24] KINASE ACTIVITY[47] REGULATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS MACROMOLECULE LOCALIZATION REGULATIO N OF DNA BINDING[48] MAP KINASE KINASE KINASE ACTIVITY[49] REGULATION OF ENDOTHELIAL CELL PROLIFERATION MEMBRANE BOUND VESICLE REGULATION OF I KAPPAB KINASE NF KAPPAB CASCADE MEMBRANE ENCLOSED LUMEN REGULATION OF MOLECULAR FUNCTION[50] MEMBRANE ORGANIZATION AND REGULATION OF PROGRAMMED CELL BIOGENESIS[51] DEATH MITOCHONDRIAL ENVELOPE REGULATION OF RNA METABOLIC PROCESS MITOCHONDRIAL INNER MEMBRANE[52] REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION DNA DEPENDENT MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE[53] REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ACTIVITY[54] MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION FROM ORGANIZATION AND BIOGENESIS RNA POLYMERASE II PROMOTER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE PART[53] RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN COMPLEX[55] MITOCHONDRIAL OUTER MEMBRANE[56] RNA PROCESSING[57] MITOCHONDRIAL PART[58] SMALL CONJUGATING PROTEIN BINDING MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSPORT[59] SYNAPTIC VESICLE[60] MITOCHONDRION[61] TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING MITOCHONDRION BIOGENESIS ORGANIZATION AND TRANSCRIPTION FROM RNA POLYMERASE II PROMOTER NEGATIVE REGULATION OF APOPTOSIS NEGATIVE REGULATION COMPONENT OF TRANSCRIPTION REPRESSOR ACTIVITY[62] CELLULAR TRANSFERASE ACTIVITY ORGANIZATION TRANSFERRING AND PHOSPHORUS CONTAINING GROUPS BIOGENESIS NEGATIVE REGULATION OF CELLULAR TRANSPORT VESICLE[63] METABOLIC PROCESS NEGATIVE REGULATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL TRICARBOXYLIC ACID CYCLE INTERMEDIATE PROCESS NEGATIVE METABOLIC PROCESS REGULATION OF METABOLIC TRNA PROCESSING PROCESS NEGATIVE REGULATION OF NUCLEOBASE UBIQUITIN BINDING[64, 65] NUCLEOSIDE NUCLEOTIDE AND NUCLEIC ACID METABOLIC PROCESS Reference: 1. 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