Uncovering key molecular mechanisms in the early and late-stage of papillary thyroid carcinoma using association rule mining algorithm

• Seyed Mahdi Hosseiniyan Khatibi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Mahdi Hosseiniyan Khatibi, Sepideh Zununi Vahed, Hamed Homaei Rad

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Clinical Research Development Unit of Tabriz Valiasr Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, Kidney Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, Rahat Breath and Sleep Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran

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• Sepideh Zununi Vahed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Mahdi Hosseiniyan Khatibi, Sepideh Zununi Vahed, Hamed Homaei Rad

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Kidney Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

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• Hamed Homaei Rad ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Mahdi Hosseiniyan Khatibi, Sepideh Zununi Vahed, Hamed Homaei Rad

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Rahat Breath and Sleep Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4932-2820

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• Manijeh Emdadi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Computer Engineering, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran

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• Zahra Akbarpour,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Rahat Breath and Sleep Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran

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• Mohammad Teshnehlab,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electric and Computer Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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• Saeed Pirmoradi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: said.pirmoradi@gmail.com (SP); e.alizadeh.2010@gmail.com (EA)

  Affiliation Clinical Research Development Unit of Tabriz Valiasr Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8786-8723

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• Effat Alizadeh

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: said.pirmoradi@gmail.com (SP); e.alizadeh.2010@gmail.com (EA)

  Affiliations Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, Faculty of Advanced Medical Sciences, Department of Medical Biotechnology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

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