Identification of hub gene for the pathogenic mechanism and diagnosis of MASLD by enhanced bioinformatics analysis and machine learning

• Hong Lu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Lu, Ziyong Mao, Mengyao Zheng

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ co-first authors.

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Ziyong Mao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Lu, Ziyong Mao, Mengyao Zheng

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ co-first authors.

  Affiliation BamRock Research Department, Suzhou BamRock Biotechnology Ltd., Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Mengyao Zheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Lu, Ziyong Mao, Mengyao Zheng

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ co-first authors.

  Affiliations College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong Province, China, Department of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Min Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation BamRock Research Department, Suzhou BamRock Biotechnology Ltd., Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Heqing Huang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Yiling Chen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Long Lv ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chenzt@suda.edu.cn (ZC); 13851596501@163.com (LL)

  Affiliation Central Laboratory, The Affiliated Gaochun Hospital of Jiangsu University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Zutao Chen

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chenzt@suda.edu.cn (ZC); 13851596501@163.com (LL)

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, MOE Key Laboratory of Geriatric Diseases and Immunology, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Pathogen Bioscience and Anti-infective Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, Infectious Disease Department, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1488-1924

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