Yagi, Hisato
Liu, Xiaoqin
Gabriel, George C.
Wu, Yijen
Peterson, Kevin
Murray, Stephen A.
Aronow, Bruce J.
Martin, Lisa J.
Benson, D. Woodrow
Lo, Cecilia W. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-3434
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U01-HL098180, HL132024)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01-GM104412)
NIH Office of the Director (S10-OD010340, OD011185)
Children’s Heart Foundation
Junior Cooperative Society
Article History
Received: 10 January 2018
Accepted: 6 March 2018
First Online: 22 March 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
:
: All authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. All studies were pursued under animal protocols approved by the University of Pittsburgh and the Jackson Laboratory Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were carried out with informed consent under a human study protocol approved by the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board and in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.