Cheung, Chiyuen
Feng, Yi
Tu, Shaoqin
Chen, Xinyuan
Shao, YiTing
Wan, Chuiming
Wei, Nan
Chen, Zheng
Ai, Hong
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82271021)
Science and Technology Projects in Guangzhou, China (2024A03J0098)
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Sun Yat-sen University (23qnpy143)
National Natural Science Foundation Cultivation Project of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (2024GZRPYMS06)
Article History
Received: 5 August 2025
Accepted: 5 November 2025
First Online: 27 November 2025
Declarations
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: All data used in this study were derived from publicly available, de-identified summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). As this study constitutes secondary analysis and did not involve the recruitment of new participants or the collection of individual-level data, it was exempt from requiring additional ethical approval from the authors’ affiliated institutions. Ethical approval and participant consent were obtained by the principal investigators of the original GWAS studies. This study exclusively used publicly available, de-identified summary-level data and did not involve any identifiable individual data. Therefore, individual participant consent for this specific study was not required.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.