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Based on a comparative bioinformatics analysis of peripheral blood transcriptomic profiles in patients with COPD and pulmonary tuberculosis, to identify common systemic immune mechanisms associated with the pathogenesis of both diseases. Gene expression data from the NCBI GEO public database were analyzed. GSE34608 included blood samples from 8 patients with tuberculosis and 18 healthy controls. The GSE76705 dataset contained peripheral-blood samples from 364 former smokers (225 with COPD and 139 without). Functional enrichment (GO Biological Process and KEGG) was run in ShinyGO; protein\u2013protein interaction networks were built in STRING, and the top-15 hub genes were ranked by the MCC algorithm in CytoHubba. In tuberculosis, 892 up-regulated and 1448 down-regulated genes were identified; in COPD, 520 up-regulated and 1329 down-regulated. 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