Riestra, Pia
Gebreab, Samson Y
Xu, Ruihua
Khan, Rumana J
Quarels, Rakale
Gibbons, Gary
Davis, Sharon K
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (1RC4MD005964-01)
Article History
Received: 2 August 2016
Revised: 14 November 2016
Accepted: 28 December 2016
First Online: 12 January 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities provided financial support to conduct this research in the form of the grant (1RC4MD005964-01). The Intramural Research Program of the National Huma Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health also supported this research. We also thank Cancer Genomics Research laboratory (CGR) for performing the telomere assay for our study and we also wish to thank Casey Dagnall for her helpful comments on telomere length measurements.
: All the authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements) or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.