Dissecting novel mechanisms of hepatitis B virus related hepatocellular carcinoma using meta-analysis of public data
Jihad Aljabban, Michael Rohr, Saad Syed, Eli Cohen, Naima Hashi, Sharjeel Syed, Kamal Khorfan, Hisham Aljabban, Vincent Borkowski, Michael Segal, Mohamed Mukhtar, Mohammed Mohammed, Emmanuel Boateng, Mary Nemer, Maryam Panahiazar, Dexter Hadley, Sajid Jalil, Khalid Mumtaz
Jihad Aljabban, Vincent Borkowski, Michael Segal, Mary Nemer, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI 53792, United States
Michael Rohr, Department of Medicine, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL 32827, United States
Saad Syed, Department of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60611, United States
Eli Cohen, Emmanuel Boateng, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, United States
Naima Hashi, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Sharjeel Syed, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Kamal Khorfan, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California San Francisco-Fresno, Fresno, CA 93701, United States
Hisham Aljabban, Department of Medicine, Barry University, Miami, FL 33161, United States
Mohamed Mukhtar, Department of Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Lansing, MI 49503, United States
Mohammed Mohammed, Department of Medicine, Windsor University School of Medicine, Frankfort, IL 60423, United States
Maryam Panahiazar, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States
Dexter Hadley, Department of Pathology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL 32827, United States
Sajid Jalil, Khalid Mumtaz, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
Author contributions: Aljabban J and Rohr M contributed to the conception or design of the work; Aljabban J, Rohr M, and Hadley D involved in the data collection; Aljabban J, Rohr M, Syed S, Cohen E, Hashi N, Syed S, Khorfan K, Aljabban H, and Mumtaz K drafted manuscript; Aljabban J, Rohr M, Syed S, Cohen E, Hashi N, Syed S, Khorfan K, Aljabban H, Boateng E, Nemer M, Panahiazar M, Hadley D, Jalil S, and Mumtaz K involved in the critical revision of manuscript; Aljabban J, Rohr M, Syed S, Cohen E, Hashi N, Syed S, Khorfan K, Aljabban H, Boateng E, Nemer M, Panahiazar M, Hadley D, Jalil S, and Mumtaz K contributed to the final edits and approval.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
PRISMA 2009 Checklist statement: The authors have read the PRISMA 2009 Checklist, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the PRISMA 2009 Checklist.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Jihad Aljabban, MD, MSc, Academic Research, Doctor, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792, United States.
jaljabban@uwhealth.org
Received: January 20, 2022
Peer-review started: January 20, 2022
First decision: April 17, 2022
Revised: April 26, 2022
Accepted: August 7, 2022
Article in press: August 7, 2022
Published online: September 15, 2022
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