Wu, Weiwei
Ren, Wenyan
Hao, Honglei
Nan, Hailun
He, Xin
Liu, Qiuling
Lu, Dejian
Funding for this research was provided by:
Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province (2017C03026)
Article History
Received: 1 October 2017
Accepted: 17 January 2018
First Online: 31 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: Buccal swab samples of 1160 father–son pairs were taken from individuals in an Eastern Chinese Han population (Zhejiang Province). Informed consent was obtained from the volunteers or legally authorized representatives of all father–son pairs. All procedures performed in this study were approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Zhongshan Medical School of Sun Yat-sen University in accordance with the 2013 Helsinki Declaration.
: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.