Wu, Chaofan
Wu, Chaoqun
Liu, Mingxiang
Fan, Zihao
Zhu, Zhengming
Ning, Rende
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Basic and Clinical Collaborative Research Promotion Initiative of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (2023sfy017)
the Hefei Municipal Natural Science Foundation (HZR2444)
the Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Bengbu Medical University (2024byzd356)
the Anhui Medical University Foundation (2023xkj109)
the Graduate Research and Practice Innovation Project Fund of Anhui Medical University (YJS20240110)
the Key Project of Health Commission Applied Medical Research of Hefei (Hwk2024zd001)
Article History
Received: 25 March 2026
Accepted: 21 September 2026
First Online: 25 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable. This study used publicly available summary-level genetic data and de-identified transcriptomic datasets. No new participants were recruited and no new human samples were collected. Ethics approval and informed consent were obtained by the investigators of the original studies according to their respective institutional requirements.
Consent for publication: All authors agree to the publication of this paper.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.