Infiltration of CXCL9+ macrophages confers a favorable prognosis in breast cancer: Insights from an integrated single-cell RNA and bulk RNA sequencing study

• Bin Liang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Liang, Zhicai Duan

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

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery (Breast Surgery), The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, People’s Republic of China

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• Zhicai Duan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Liang, Zhicai Duan

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery (Breast Surgery), The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, People’s Republic of China

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• Siyu Long ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhoupeng1248@163.com (PZ); 250471568@qq.com (SL)

  Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, People’s Republic of China

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• Peng Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhoupeng1248@163.com (PZ); 250471568@qq.com (SL)

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery (Breast Surgery), The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, People’s Republic of China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9964-0813

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