Targeted metabolomics reveals the association between central carbon metabolism and pulmonary nodules

• Yue-yang Wu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YW and WS contributed equally to this work as co-first authors. FH and QQ also contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors.

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Wen-bin Shen ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YW and WS contributed equally to this work as co-first authors. FH and QQ also contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors.

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Jian-wei Li,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Meng-yu Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Wen-lei Hu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Sheng Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation The Center for Scientific Research of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Jian-jun Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Fen Huang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fenh@ahmu.edu.cn (FH); qqr2022@163.com (QQ)

  ¶‡ YW and WS contributed equally to this work as co-first authors. FH and QQ also contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors.

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2127-3668

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• Qi-rong Qin

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fenh@ahmu.edu.cn (FH); qqr2022@163.com (QQ)

  ¶‡ YW and WS contributed equally to this work as co-first authors. FH and QQ also contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors.

  Affiliation Maanshan Center for Disease Control and Provention, Maanshan, Anhui, China

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