Tang, Shanneng
Yao, Xin
Wang, Shanshan
Zhu, Fanfan
Zeng, Wenbin
Lai, Dongping
Meng, Xiaobing
Zhang, Xinyue
Zhu, Ziming
Zhang, Tao
Xu, Ri’an
Article History
Received: 4 November 2025
Revised: 20 March 2026
Accepted: 15 April 2026
First Online: 7 May 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study exclusively utilized publicly available summary statistics from previously published GWAS and publicly accessible databases, including UK Biobank, FinnGen, GTEx Project, and GEO. All original studies received ethical approval from their respective Institutional Review Boards, and informed consent was obtained from all participants in the primary studies. No new human subjects, human data, or human tissues were directly involved in this secondary analysis. As this research involved only the analysis of de-identified, publicly available summary-level data, no additional ethical approval was required for the present study.
: Not applicable. This manuscript does not contain data from any individual person.