Gane, Edward J.
Rouzier, Régine
Hassanein, Tarek
Stedman, Catherine A.
Mazur, Wlodzimierz
Kupcova, Viera
Le Pogam, Sophie
Eng, Simon
Voulgari, Athina
Morcos, Peter N.
Brennan, Barbara J.
Scalori, Astrid
Thommes, James
Article History
Received: 3 July 2015
Accepted: 16 December 2015
First Online: 17 February 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: E. J. Gane—advisory boards for Gilead, AbbVie, Idenix, Achillion, Novartis, Janssen and Roche; R. Rouzier—None to declare; T. Hassanein—Research Grants: AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eisai, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Idenix, Ikaria, Mochida, Roche, Ocera, Taigen, Takeda, Salix, Sundise, Vertex. Speaker: Baxter, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead, Salix; Advisory Board: AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb; C. A. Stedman—advisory boards for Roche, MSD, Gilead Sciences and Janssen; W. Mazur—has received lecture fees from Gilead, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Janssen, and AbbVie; consulting fees from MSD, Gilead, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Abbott; has participated as an investigator in clinical trials for GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Gilead, Janssen, AbbVie, and Bristol-Myers Squibb; V. Kupcova—None to declare; S. Le Pogam—Hoffmann La Roche employee at the time of the study; S. Eng—Genentech/Roche employee at the time of the study; A. Voulgari—Employee of Roche; P. Morcos—Employee of Roche; B. J. Brennan—Employee of Roche; A. Scalori—Employee of Roche; J. Thommes—Employee of Genentech.
: Ethical approval was attained et al. sites prior to patient recruitment. 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. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and amendments and in compliance with Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice and EU Directive 2001/20/EC. The protocol was approved by the research ethics committee at each participating centre and each patient provided written informed consent before undergoing any study procedures.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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