Feng, Junfei
Yang, Qinghua
Xu, Hongyuan
Kang, Tao
Huang, Longao
Jiang, Hua
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82360438)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (2023GXNSFAA026339)
Joint Project on Regional High-Incidence Diseases Research of Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (2024GXNSFDA010043)
Article History
Received: 2 July 2025
Revised: 25 August 2025
Accepted: 1 October 2025
First Online: 24 October 2025
Declarations
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: All protocols involving human or animals’ NP tissues were supported by the Research Ethics Committee of The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University (2025-E0065). Written informed consent was achieved from each adult participant. Each cohort included in this study was conducted using published studies and consortia, which provided publicly available summary statistics. All original studies have received ethical approval and agreed to participate, and summary-level data were provided for analysis.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
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