LncRNA expression signature identified using genome-wide transcriptomic profiling to predict lymph node metastasis in patients with stage T1 and T2 gastric cancer.

"Declarations Conflict of interestAll the authors have no conflict of interest related to the manuscript. Ethical approval and consent to participateThe study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University (no. KY2022SL436-01) on 13 December 2022, with an exemption from informed consent. No specific consent is needed for statistical analyses of aggregated de-identified data. For this study, the raw data were first extracted from HIS, and patients’ identities, including names, screening IDs, patient IDs, and mobile phone numbers, were de-identified. Consent for publicationAll authors approved the final manuscript and the submission to this journal. Conflict of interest All the authors have no conflict of interest related to the manuscript."

"This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Funds of Young Scientists of China (No. 81802944), the Key Project of Ningbo Natural Science Foundation (No. 2021J279), Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LQ21H160013), the Medical Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province (2023KY1033, and 2023KY236), the Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo (No. 2022J264), Ningbo Digestive System Tumor Clinical Medicine Research Center (No. 2019A21003), Project of Zhejiang Medical and Health Platform Plan (No. 2022KY1079), and Ningbo Public Welfare Science & Technology Major Project (No. 2021S106)."