Si, Shucheng http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9858-7089
Li, Jiqing http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-4057
Tewara, Marlvin Anemey
Li, Hongkai
Liu, Xinhui
Li, Yunxia
Chen, Xiaolu
Liu, Congcong
Yuan, Tonghui
Li, Wenchao
Wang, Bojie
Xue, Fuzhong http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0378-7956
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81773547)
Article History
Received: 23 October 2020
Revised: 13 September 2021
Accepted: 30 September 2021
First Online: 20 October 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Our research is only based on publicly available summarised data and no individual data were involved. These genome-wide association studies (including the GIANT, EGG, MRC-IEU, GUGC, Neale Lab, DIAGRAM, IMSGC, PGC, SSGAC, UK Biobank, GSCAN, GLGC, MAGIC, ADIPOGen, GIS, CHARGE and ReproGen consortium, and the individual research by Astle WJ et al, Jiang X et al, Sun BB et al, Kettunen et al, T-K Clarke et al, Aiden Doherty et al, Ferreira MA et al, Demenais F et al, Klimentidis YC et al, Strawbridge RJ et al, Manning AK et al, Dupuis J et al, Evans et al and Borges CM et al) had declared the ethic approval from the relevant institutional review board and in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki, or other (see reference [CitationRef removed–CitationRef removed]). This secondary analysis is based on summary-level statistics that are not applicable for the clauses of ethics, the Ethics Committee of the School of Public Health of Shandong University ruled that ethics approval was not required in this particular case.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.