Funding for this research was provided by:
Yen Tjing Ling Medical Foundation
Article History
Received: 9 August 2024
Accepted: 24 November 2024
First Online: 15 December 2024
Declarations
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: No conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, are declared by the authors.
: Each person (his/her parents if they were under age 21) gave informed consent for the investigative portion of the study. All studies in the controls and in patients with MS were performed in accordance with institutional guidelines for human research under separate protocols approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.