Adnan, Atif http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4537-0059
Rakha, Allah
Nazir, Shahid
Alghafri, Rashed
Hassan, Qudsia
Wang, Chuan-Chao
Lu, Jie
Funding for this research was provided by:
China Medical University Shenyang (100/1210619014)
Article History
Received: 2 February 2021
Accepted: 26 March 2021
First Online: 5 April 2021
Declarations
: All participants who were included in this study were unrelated individuals of at least three generations.
: All participants gave their informed consent either orally and with thumbprint (in case they could not write) or in writing after the study aims and procedures were carefully explained to them.
: This collaborative study was approved by the ethical review boards of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China (2019/067-P), University of Health Sciences Lahore Pakistan (2017-CMU-1/14), and Ministry of Public Health, Forensic Medicine Directorate, Kabul, Afghanistan (FC-2017–02). All the experimental procedures were performed in accordance with the standards of the Declaration of Helsinki.