Ena, Giacomo Francesco https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7749-5182
Giménez, Aaron
Carballo-Mesa, Annabel
Lišková, Petra https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3519-643X
Araújo Castro e Silva, Marcos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9873-3717
Comas, David https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5075-0956
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Article History
Received: 18 December 2024
Accepted: 4 March 2025
First Online: 17 March 2025
Declarations
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: The study has been approved by the CEIm-PSMAR IRB in Barcelona (2019/8900/I, 2022/10542/I, and 2023/10830 protocols) and the Ethics Committee of General University Hospital in Prague (reference no. 65/16 and 34/19); and it has been developed under the umbrella of the project “El Camí del Poble Gitano: una història de diversitat” in collaboration with the FAGiC (Giménez et al. ). Preliminary results were presented to the local Roma community in a meeting at the UPF in Barcelona on May 26th 2023 and retransmitted in streaming (Universitat Pompeu Fabra ). All the procedures were carried out in adherence to the standard guidelines and regulations outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki (General Assembly of the World Medical Association ).
: For the novel data, DNA was collected from volunteers who self-identified as Romani and Czech, with all participants providing written informed consent.
: The authors declare no competing interests.