Huang, Yi
Duan, Kristina
Koythong, Tamisa
Patil, Ninad M.
Fan, Dazhi
Liu, Juan
Guan, Zhenkun
Guan, Xiaoming
Article History
Received: 24 January 2021
Accepted: 20 February 2021
First Online: 2 March 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Y Huang, Dr. K Duan, Dr. T Koythong, Dr. N Patil, Dr. D Fan, Dr. J Liu, Dr. Z Guan, Dr. X Guan declare that they have no financial disclosures or conflicts of interests.
: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the institutional review board at Baylor College of Medicine in 2018 (Reference Number No. H-46727).
: The IRB review board has approved this research at our institution (Ethic Number No. H-46727).
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.