A network analysis revealed the essential and common downstream proteins related to inguinal hernia

• Yimin Mao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yimin Mao, Le Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations School of Information and Technology, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Jiangxi, China, Applied Science Institute, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Jiangxi, China

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• Le Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yimin Mao, Le Chen

  Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Information and Technology, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Jiangxi, China

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• Jianghua Li,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation School of Information and Technology, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Jiangxi, China

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• Anna Junjie Shangguan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Stacy Kujawa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Reproductive Science in Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Hong Zhao

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: h-zhao@northwestern.edu

  Affiliation Division of Reproductive Science in Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4616-3123

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