Wei, Yi-Liang
Sun, Qi-Fan
Li, Qing
Yi, Jun-Ling
Zhao, Lei
Ou, Yuan
Jiang, Li
Zhang, Tao
Liu, Hai-Bo
Chen, Jian-Gang
Zhu, Bo-Feng
Ye, Jian
Hu, Lan
Li, Cai-Xia
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China (81202384)
Science and Technology Innovation Base Program of Beijing (Z141106004414084)
Article History
Received: 3 December 2015
Accepted: 10 February 2016
First Online: 1 March 2016
Change Date: 26 February 2020
Change Type: Clarification
Change Details: ‘Concerns have been raised about the ethics approval and informed consent procedures related to the research reported in this paper. The paper includes the following author declarations: “Samples from all subjects were obtained with written informed consent and self-declared ancestry information. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Public Security, People’s Republic of China, and the experiment was conducted according to the approved guidelines.” Editorial action will be taken as appropriate once an investigation of the concerns is complete and all parties have been given an opportunity to respond in full.’
Compliance with ethical standards
: Samples from all subjects were obtained with written informed consent and self-declared ancestry information. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Public Security, People’s Republic of China, and the experiment was conducted according to the approved guidelines.