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"data availability the datasets generated and analyzed during the present study are available in the tcga repository ( https://portal gdc cancer gov/ ) and geo repository (gse42127) ( https://www ncbi nlm nih gov/ ). data availability the datasets generated and analyzed during the present study are available in the tcga repository ( https://portal gdc cancer gov/ ) and geo repository (gse42127"

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis work was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (2000) of the World Medical Association. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University (Nantong, Jiangsu, China) under no. 2022-L165. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81770266), “Six-one” Project for High-level Health Talents (LGY2016037), National Natural Science Foundation of China (82370253), Jiangsu Provincial Research Hospital (YJXYY202204), Innovation Team Project of Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University (XNBHCX31773), Nantong Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine in Cardiothoracic Diseases, Nantong Clinical Medical Research Center of Cardiothoracic Disease, and the Institution of Translational Medicine in Cardiothoracic Diseases in Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University."