Liu, Qing-Rong
Zhu, Min
Perez, Kevin
Yao, Qin
Horowitz, Mark S.
Chen, Qinghua
Fantoni, Giovanna
An, Yang
Resnick, Susan M.
Sedlock, Andrea
Maric, Dragan
Serrano, Geidy E.
Egan, Josephine M.
Ramsden, Christopher E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Josephine M. Egan (AG000214)
Article History
Received: 22 September 2025
Revised: 26 March 2026
Accepted: 28 March 2026
First Online: 15 April 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: BLSA participants have provided written informed consent and all BLSA study protocols have been approved by the National Institutes of Health Intramural Institutional Review Board. Written informed consent and agreement for autopsy were obtained from all participants in the postmortem study. The study and its consenting procedures were approved by the Western Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Puyallup, Washington and the IRB of the University of Kentucky and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A clinical trial is not applicable.
: This research was supported [in part] by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The contributions of the NIH authors were made as part of their official duties as NIH federal employees, are in compliance with agency policy requirements, and are considered Works of the United States Government. However, the findings and conclusions presented in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NIH or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.