Farooq, Aruba
Akyuz, Evren M.
Cheah, Brandon WQ
Deen, Suha
Martin, Stewart G.
Finelli, Mattéa J.
Storr, Sarah
McIntyre, Alan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust ([218466/Z/19/Z], studentship [319465/Z/24/Z])
Article History
Received: 5 November 2025
Accepted: 20 January 2026
First Online: 11 February 2026
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was obtained from Derbyshire Ethics Committee (07/H0401/156). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.All samples collected from Nottingham used in this study were pseudo-anonymized; those collected prior to 2006 did not require informed patient consent under the Human Tissue Act; after 2006, informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.