Papier, Keren http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4102-6835
Kakkoura, Maria G. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3688-1367
Guo, Yu
Knuppel, Anika http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1049-4836
Pei, Pei
Tong, Tammy Y. N. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0284-8959
Yu, Canqing
Perez-Cornago, Aurora http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5652-356X
Chang, Wing Ching
Chen, Junshi
Lv, Jun
Li, Liming
Chen, Zhengming
Du, Huaidong http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9814-0049
Key, Timothy J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2294-307X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (205212/Z/16/Z, 205212/Z/16/Z, 212946/Z/18/Z, 202922/Z/16/Z, 104085/Z/14/Z, 088158/Z/09/Z)
Cancer Research UK (C570/A16491, A29186, C60192/A28516, 8221/A29017, C16077/A29186, C500/A16896)
UK Medical Research Council (MR/M012190/1, MC_UU_00017/1, MC_UU_12026/2, MC_U137686851)
World Cancer Research Fund (2019/1953)
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0900500, 2016YFC0900501, 2016YFC0900504, 2016YFC1303904)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (91843302)
British Heart Foundation (CH/1996001/9454)
Article History
Received: 8 February 2022
Accepted: 5 October 2022
First Online: 22 October 2022
Declarations
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: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: All participants provided informed consent. Ethics approvals were obtained at a local, national and international level prior to the beginning of recruitment. Ethics approval for China Kadoorie Biobank was obtained from the Ethical Review Committee of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Beijing, China, 005/2004), and the Oxford Tropical Research Ethics Committee, University of Oxford (UK, 025-04). The UK Biobank study was conducted according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the North West Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee (reference number 06/MRE08/65).