Lin, Chih-Wei
Dutta, Sandeep
Zhao, Weihan
Asatryan, Armen
Campbell, Andrew
Liu, Wei
Funding for this research was provided by:
AbbVie
Article History
First Online: 7 July 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The study was sponsored by AbbVie. AbbVie contributed to the study design, research, and interpretation of data, and the writing, reviewing, and approving of the publication.
: CL, WZ, AA, AC, and WL are employees of AbbVie and may hold AbbVie stock or stock options. SD is a former employee of AbbVie and may hold AbbVie stock or stock options. Medical writing support was provided by Allison Kitten and Amy Rohrlack, employees of AbbVie.
: All procedures performed in this study 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. The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board (Vista Medical Center East Institutional Review Board, Waukegan, IL, USA).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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