Villicaña, Sergio https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2455-7095
Castillo-Fernandez, Juan
Hannon, Eilis
Christiansen, Colette
Tsai, Pei-Chien
Maddock, Jane
Kuh, Diana
Suderman, Matthew
Power, Christine
Relton, Caroline
Ploubidis, George
Wong, Andrew
Hardy, Rebecca
Goodman, Alissa
Ong, Ken K.
Bell, Jordana T.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/N000404/1)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/S020845/1, BB/T019980/1)
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (2019-000021-01EXTF-00323)
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00006/2, ES/M008584/1, ES/N000498/1)
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00019/1, G0000934)
Article History
Received: 6 October 2022
Accepted: 10 July 2023
First Online: 31 July 2023
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for TwinsUK was granted by the National Research Ethics Service London-Westminster, the St Thomas’ Research Ethics Committee (REC reference numbers: EC04/015 and 07/H0802/84). All research participants have signed informed consent prior to taking part in any research activities. Ethical approval for 1946BC was granted by the Central Manchester Research Ethics Committee (07/H1008/168 and 07/H1008/245) and the Scotland A Research Ethics Committee (08/MRE00/12). Ethical approval for 1958BC swas granted by the London Central REC (14/LO/0097, 12/LO/2010 and 08/H0718/29) and by South East MREC (01/1/44). This covered consent for the collection of blood samples for health research. Biosamples for the sweep are held at University of Bristol and this has ethical approval as a tissue bank under application 09/H1010/12 from North-West Haydock NRES committee.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.