Li, Zhixi
Ren, Yuhan
Jiang, Feng
Zhang, Kai
Meng, Xuan
Zheng, Yingfeng
He, Mingguang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82301249)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2024A1515010338)
Science and Technology Projects in Guangzhou (3030901006202)
Fundamental Research Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology (83000-32030003)
Lumitin Vision to Brightness Research Funding for the Young and middle-aged Ophthalmologists and the Global STEM Professorship Scheme (P0046113)
Article History
Received: 27 March 2025
Accepted: 10 August 2025
First Online: 18 August 2025
Declarations
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: UK Biobank obtained ethical approval from the North West Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee to collect and utilize the data. The FinnGen Biobank study was likewise approved by the Coordinating Ethics Committee of the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District. All participants provided written informed consent. Furthermore, since the data was publicly available and deidentified, institutional review board approval was waived for this analysis.
: Not applicable.
: The authors have no financial or other conflicts of interest concerning this study. The funders had no role in the study design or implementation; data collection, management, analysis, or interpretation; manuscript preparation, review, or approval; or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The authors declare no competing interests.