Marchio, Agnès
Amougou Atsama, Marie
Béré, Aubin
Komas, Narcisse-Patrice
Noah Noah, Dominique
Atangana, Paul Jean Adrien
Camengo-Police, Serge-Magloire
Njouom, Richard
Bekondi, Claudine
Pineau, Pascal http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-1592
Funding for this research was provided by:
Institut Pasteur International Network
direction of Research Applications and Relations with the Industry
French Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer
Article History
Received: 2 February 2018
Accepted: 4 May 2018
First Online: 10 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests
: 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. It was approved by the National Ethics Committee and the Ministry of Health of Cameroon (AAR#631-00.12) as well as by the Ethics Committee of the Bangui Medical School (No. 10/UB/FACSS/CSVPR/11).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all the patients (or their parents, in the case of the nine minors between 13 and 17 years old).
: Data could be available on reasonable request. The minute amount of cell-free DNA present in the plasma of human beings makes impossible the availability of material. Furthermore, according to the French regulations, the consent to exploit the samples was given by the participants to the initial members of the consortium and was not intended to be spread anywhere else.