Forkhead box P3 gene polymorphisms predispose to type 2 diabetes and diabetic nephropathy in the Han Chinese populations: a genetic-association and gender-based evaluation study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Lanzhou University Second Hospital (record number is 2021A-255). Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects who participated in the study. Consent for publicationWe have obtained consent from participants/patients for publication. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"Funding This work was supported by Science and Technology Program of Gansu Province (21JR11RA130, 21JR7RA399) and Lanzhou Science and Technology Bureau (2019-ZD-55, 2019-ZD-60, 2018-3-46)."