Miyata, Kana N.
Shen, Jenny I.
Nishio, Yasuhide
Haneda, Manabu
Dadzie, Kobena A.
Sheth, Nijal R.
Kuriyama, Renjiro
Matsuzawa, Chika
Tachibana, Ken
Harbord, Nikolas B.
Winchester, James F.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (K23DK103972)
Article History
Received: 7 August 2017
Accepted: 20 November 2017
First Online: 28 November 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: This study was approved by the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Institutional Review Board (Approval #222-12) and the Tama Medical Center Research Ethics Committee (Approval #42) and was carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.