Clifton, Lei http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5595-8468
Liu, Xiaonan
Collister, Jennifer A
Littlejohns, Thomas J
Allen, Naomi
Hunter, David J
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cancer Research UK (C16077/A29186)
Article History
Received: 7 July 2023
Accepted: 24 December 2023
First Online: 16 January 2024
Declarations
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: The UK Biobank study received ethical approval from the North West Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee (REC reference: 11/NW/03820). All participants gave written informed consent before enrolment in the study, which was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. This study has been conducted using the UK Biobank Resource under Application Number 33952.
: The lead author affirms that this manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that any discrepancies from the study as planned have been explained.
: The analyses presented here are based on existing data from the UK Biobank cohort study, and the authors were not involved in participant recruitment. To the best of our knowledge, no patients were explicitly engaged in the design or implementation of the UK Biobank study. No patients were asked to advise on interpretation or writing these results. Results from UK Biobank are routinely disseminated to study participants via the study website and social media outlets.
: Yes.
: All authors declare no support from any organization for the submitted work, no financial relationship with any organization that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationship or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.