Fig. 5

MCL-1 expression in RCC tumor tissues versus in the associate normal tissues: Boxplots of the MCL-1 expression level across TCGA-RCC subtypes in renal tumor (red) versus the associated normal renal tissues (blue) were presented (A). MCL-1 expression among different stages of chRCC (B), ccRCC (C) and pRCC (D) versus the associated normal tissues was box-plotted. MCL-1 expression was presented in the log2 (TPM + 1) scale format. Data were presented as the mean ± SD. A t-test was used to evaluate the statistical significance of the mRNA expression level in normal renal tissues versus tumor tissues. One-way ANOVA was used to compare MCL-1 expression among normal renal tissues versus different stages of RCC tumor tissues. The figure was performed using R version 4.0.3