Jiang, Wei
Xu, Sheng
Zhao, Meiqing
Li, Chao
Article History
Received: 21 February 2024
Accepted: 8 November 2024
First Online: 27 November 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All datasets in the present study were downloaded form public databases, including GEO, TCGA, CPTAC, ICGC and HPA databases. These databases allowed researchers to download and analyze public datasets for scientific purposes and thus ethics approval was not required. In regard of Human peripheral blood samples and HNSC tumor tissues, the study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University (No. 2023-K064-01). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients whose information was reasonably protected and not identified. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.