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Published online March 28, 2026
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All research protocols were reviewed and approved by the Amgen Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (Thousand Oaks, CA), Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto, Canada) and Danish Animal Experimentation Council (Hrsholm, Denmark)