“…Secondly, to compare our approach to a case:control cohort study not included in our analysis, we retrieved a list of genes shown by Mehdi and colleagues ( Mehdi et al., 2018 ) to be downregulated in T1D subjects relative to control individuals. Thirdly, to demonstrate the value of C-FLEE over other network informatic approaches, we identified a set of 1003 candidate T1D genes from a recent gene expression profiling meta-analysis ( De Silva et al., 2022 ). As an independent, objective benchmark, we compared enrichment of ET1DREs and these three gene sets against the Type 1 Diabetes Knowledge Portal list of 1000 genes that exhibit significant ( p < 5E-03) associations with the incidence of type 1 diabetes ( Table S20 , columns A&B).…”