Identification of functional genes in liver fibrosis based on bioinformatics analysis of a lncRNA-mediated ceRNA network.

"availability of data and materials the datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the gene expression omnibus (geo) datasets (accession no gse12392 and gse84044; https://www ncbi nlm nih gov/geo/query/acc cgi? availability of data and materials the datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the gene expression omnibus (geo) datasets (accession no gse12392"

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll experiments were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines of the Ethics Committee of Xiangya Hospital and regulations of the the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval of the study and informed consent of the participants was obtained. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Xiangya Hospital. 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 grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (grant no.2021JJ70148) and 2023 Science and Technology Project of Hunan Provincial Health Commission (grant no.B202319019225)."