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Park, Seunghwan
Chung, Wonil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5766-6247
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2020-NR051326)
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Article History
Received: 10 September 2025
Accepted: 31 August 2026
First Online: 6 September 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethical approval and consent to participate: The UK Biobank was approved by the North West Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee (MREC) as a Research Tissue Bank (RTB), allowing researchers to conduct studies under the RTB framework without requiring additional ethical approval. During recruitment, participants provided informed consent for research use, and all data were fully anonymized prior to access to ensure confidentiality. For this retrospective analysis, the relevant ethics committee waived the requirement for additional informed consent.
