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Our approach contains three steps: (1) We constructed a comorbidity network based on data mining; (2) we extracted the local network that contains paths from obesity to CRC, and analyzed the local network to pin point the strong comorbidity for both obesity and CRC; (3) we conducted gene expression meta-analysis to identify common genes shared among obesity, CRC and the comorbidity.
