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A protein-protein interaction network, the support vector machine (SVM)-recursive feature elimination and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression model were constructed to identify feature genes. Immune infiltration analysis was explored by CIBERSORT. And the correlation between feature gene and immune cells was also calculated. Finally, we used the angiotensin II (Ang II)-ApoE\u2212\/\u2212 mouse model of AAA to verify the effect of feature gene expression by confirming protein expression using immunohistochemistry and western blot.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold>We identified 22 DEGs, including 21 upregulated genes and 1 downregulated gene. The DEGs were mainly enriched in neutrophil chemotaxis and IL-17 signaling pathway.<jats:italic>FOS<\/jats:italic>was identified as a good diagnostic feature gene (AUC = 0.964). Immune infiltration analysis showed a higher level of T cells follicular helper, activated NK cells, Monocytes, activated Mast cells in AAA group. And<jats:italic>FOS<\/jats:italic>was correlated with immune cells. Immunohistochemistry and western blot confirmed higher<jats:italic>FOS<\/jats:italic>expression in PVAT of the AAA mouse model compared to control group.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold>The differentially expressed genes and pathways identified in this study provide further understanding of how PVAT affects AAA development. FOS was identified as the diagnostic gene. 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