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Currently, immunotherapy is believed to be an effective treatment method for DCM. However, individual differences are so obvious that the clinical effect is not satisfactory. In order to find immune-related biomarkers of DCM to guide treatment and improve clinical efficacy, we downloaded a GSE120895 dataset from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database using CIBERSORT and WGCNA algorithms in RStudio and visualizing the protein\u2013protein interaction (PPI) network for key modules by Cytoscape, and finally obtained six hub genes. A GSE17800 dataset was downloaded from the GEO dataset to verify the diagnostic values of hub genes, MYG1, FLOT1, and ATG13, which were excellent. 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