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Contributors : Feng Jiang, Xiaohu Han, Yongxiang Zhao and
Zeliang Chen conceptualized the initial hypothesis and conceived and
designed the study. Feng Jiang, Xiaohu Han, Ya Wen, Yao Chen, Hua Deng,
Qing Xin, Yudan Bi and Yicheng Zhou carried out the sample collection
and the molecular testing. Yongxiang Zhao, Yao Chen, Hua Deng and Ya Wen
collected and sorted out the data. Ruihao Peng edited the table. Qijun
Chen, Xiaohu Han, Ruihao Peng conducted literature search and
participated in the writing part. Xiaohu Han, Ruihao Peng and Zeliang
Chen did the statistical analysis and wrote the first draft of the
manuscript. Qijun Chen and Zeliang Chen revised the manuscript. All
authors contributed substantially to data acquisition and
interpretation, and revision and editing of the manuscript. The Sixth
People’s Hospital of Dandong City provided patient samples and related
data for this project.
Funding : This study was supported by the Science and Technology
Partnership Program,Ministry of Science and Technology of China
(KY201901014), Qijun Chen, Zeliang Chen Xiaohu Han,Feng Jiang received
funding from the project; this study is also funded by the National
Science and Technology Major Project (2018ZX10101002), Xiaohu Han,
Zeliang Chen received funding from the project.
Availability of data and materials : All data and codes
supporting the findings of this study are derived from open databases.
Ethical approval : No.01(2022)of The Sixth People’s Hospital
of Dandong City.
Declaration of competing interest : The authors declare that
they have no known competing financial interests or personal
relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in
this paper.