Seo, Hyungwoo
Chung, Wonil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5766-6247
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (2021M3E5E3081425)
Article History
Received: 4 March 2025
Accepted: 27 July 2025
First Online: 1 September 2025
Declarations
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: The UK Biobank has received approval from the North West Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee (MREC) as a Research Tissue Bank (RTB), allowing researchers to conduct studies within the RTB framework without requiring separate ethical approval. At recruitment, participants provided informed consent for research use, and all data were fully anonymized before access to ensure participant confidentiality. For this retrospective analysis, the requirement for additional informed consent was waived by the relevant ethics committee.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.