Liu, Junpeng
Zhang, Zeke
Huang, Bin
Fang, Yutong
Lin, Hao
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82072817)
the Medical Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (B2022311)
Article History
Received: 7 May 2025
Accepted: 1 September 2025
First Online: 26 September 2025
Declarations
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: All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. This study exclusively utilized publicly available summary statistics and did not attempt to access individual-level data, thus requiring no ethical approval for the bioinformatic analyses. The immunohistochemistry specimens used in this study were obtained from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, with approval from the Medical Ethics Committee of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College (Approval No. 2025-55). Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: No identifiable personal data were published in this study; therefore, consent to publish was not required.
: The authors declare no competing interests.