Thomas, Remy
Shaath, Hibah
Naik, Adviti
Toor, Salman M.
Elkord, Eyad
Decock, Julie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4409-100X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (2014-006 (VR80))
Article History
Received: 24 July 2019
Accepted: 4 January 2020
First Online: 13 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.Ethical approval and ethical standardsThe study was approved by the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (study approval number 2016-002, initial approval date 31st May 2017) and the Hamad Medical Corporation (study approval number 17132/17, initial approval date 5th November 2017) institutional review boards and was performed in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: The study protocol was granted IRB waiver of informed consent under the condition of anonymization and no additional intervention to the participants.
: All cell lines were purchased from the American Tissue Culture Collection (Manassas, VA, USA) and cell line authentication was performed using short tandem repeat profile analysis.