Zhao, Jinjiang
Cheng, Jie
Liang, Shaohua
Guo, Wei
Zhao, Beibei
Zhang, Huipeng
Mei, Xianghuang
Zhang, Ning
Sheng, Meifang
Article History
Received: 24 June 2025
Accepted: 16 September 2025
First Online: 14 October 2025
Declarations
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: This study utilized exclusively publicly available, de-identified data obtained from the NCBI database (under accession number PRJNA558250, PRJNA597328, PRJNA600011, PRJNA656197, PRJNA704267, and PRJNA720943). As a secondary data analysis study that did not involve direct interaction with human subjects or the re-identification of individuals, no new ethical approval or informed consent was required for this work. According to the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Administration of Human Genetic Resources (2019) and the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (2021), the use of anonymized and publicly accessible datasets does not require additional ethics approval or informed consent. Therefore, informed consent to participate was not required, and ethics approval was deemed unnecessary.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.