Costeira, Ricardo
Evangelista, Laila
Wilson, Rory
Yan, Xinyu
Hellbach, Fabian
Sinke, Lucy
Christiansen, Colette
Villicaña, Sergio
Masachs, Olatz M.
Tsai, Pei-Chien
Mangino, Massimo
Menni, Cristina
Berry, Sarah E.
Beekman, Marian
van Heemst, Diana
Slagboom, P. Eline
Heijmans, Bastiaan T.
Suhre, Karsten
Kastenmüller, Gabi
Gieger, Christian
Peters, Annette
Small, Kerrin S.
Linseisen, Jakob
Waldenberger, Melanie
Bell, Jordana T.
Funding for this research was provided by:
European HDHL Joint Programming Initiative (BB/S020845/1, 01EA1902A, 01EA1902B, BB/S020845/1, 01EA1902A, 01EA1902B, 01EA1902A, BB/S020845/1)
King's-China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship
Chronic Disease Research Foundation
ZOE LIMITED
Medical Research Council (MR/M004422/1)
Article History
Received: 3 July 2023
Accepted: 4 October 2023
First Online: 19 October 2023
Declarations
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: <b><i>TwinsUK.</i></b> Ethical approval was granted by the National Research Ethics Service London-Westminster, the St Thomas’ Hospital Research Ethics Committee (EC04/015 and 07/H0802/84). All research participants have signed informed consent prior to taking part in any research activities. <b><i>KORA F4 and FF4.</i></b> The KORA cohort ethical approval was granted by the ethics committee of the Bavarian Medical Association (REC reference numbers: F4: #06068, FF4: #06068) and all were carried out in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. This covers consent for the use of biological material, including genetics. All research participants have signed informed consent prior to taking part in any research activities. The KORA data protection procedures were approved by the responsible data protection officer of the Helmholtz Munich. <b><i>LLS.</i></b> In accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, we obtained written informed consent from all participants prior to their entering the study. Good clinical practice guidelines were maintained. The study protocol was approved by the ethical committee of the Leiden University Medical Center before the start of the study (P01.113).
: All authors have read and approved the manuscript for publication.
: S.E.B. receives payments and options as a consultant to ZOE LIMITED. The other authors have no competing interests to declare.