Lin, Junyu
Ma, Zichang
Tao, Yuxi
Liang, Yun
Wei, Yuhan
Liu, Huajin
Zhang, Yaqin
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81801809)
Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (No.2020A1515010572)
Zhuhai Basic and Applied Basic Research Project Foundation (ZH22017003200001PWC)
Article History
Received: 15 October 2025
Accepted: 13 August 2026
First Online: 8 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Ethical approval for this retrospective study was granted by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (Approval No. K243-1), in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013). The ethics committee waived the requirement for individual informed consent given the retrospective nature of this study using routinely collected clinical data and biospecimens.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.