Wang, Yan
Zhou, Qipeng
Dong, Lian
Xiong, Mingmei
Jiang, Hua
Guo, Meihua
Zhao, Li
Yuan, Liang
Li, Ziying
Liu, Hanwei
Wang, Jian
Zhong, Nanshan
Lu, Wenju
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (1035101200300000)
Article History
Received: 14 September 2017
Accepted: 7 December 2017
First Online: 28 December 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was funded by National Precision Medicine Foundation (No. 2016YFC0903700).
: All the authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. We are grateful to the COPD patients and control subjects for their participation in this study. We also thank the clinicians and hospital staff who contributed to the sample and data collection.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Committee of The First Affiliated Hospital (GZMC2009-08-1336).