Higham, Jonathan
Kerr, Lyndsay https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6667-7175
Zhang, Qian
Walker, Rosie M.
Harris, Sarah E.
Howard, David M.
Hawkins, Emma L.
Sandu, Anca-Larisa
Steele, J. Douglas
Waiter, Gordon D.
Murray, Alison D.
Evans, Kathryn L.
McIntosh, Andrew M.
Visscher, Peter M.
Deary, Ian J.
Cox, Simon R.
Sproul, Duncan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6168-4563
Funding for this research was provided by:
cancer research uk (C47648/A20837)
medical research council
Article History
Received: 2 August 2021
Accepted: 5 October 2022
First Online: 17 October 2022
Declarations
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: All participants provided written informed consent. Ethical permission for the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 study protocol was obtained from the Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee for Scotland (Wave 1: MREC/01/0/56), the Lothian Research Ethics Committee (Wave 1: LREC/2003/2/29), and the Scotland A Research Ethics Committee (Waves 2–4: 07/MRE00/58). All components of Generation Scotland received ethical approval from the NHS Tayside Committee on Medical Research Ethics (REC Reference Number: 05/S1401/89). GS has also been granted Research Tissue Bank status by the East of Scotland Research Ethics Service (REC Reference Number: 20/ES/0021), providing generic ethical approval for a wide range of uses within medical research.
: AMM has received speaker fees from Illumina and Janssen, and research funding support from The Sackler Trust. JDS has received funding via an honorarium associated with a lecture for Wyeth and funding from Indivior for a study on opioid dependency.