Interpreting MA plot - DEG

Question

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Hi

How can this gene PALB2 have such a strong p value, and not a very high log fold change, but also has lower end of log2mean expression on the MA plot

MA plot:

Volcano plot:

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I gave my two cents here: https://support.bioconductor.org/p/9159961/

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