Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province (560 thousand yuan)
Article History
Received: 13 March 2020
Accepted: 20 June 2020
First Online: 1 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by Institutional Research Ethic Board at the Soochow University.
: All subjects signed informed consent forms before participating in the project. The collection and use of human materials for the present study were approved by Institutional Research Ethic Board at the Soochow University. Informed consent forms were collected from all the participants before entering the study.
: The study has involved human participants. Twenty-eight unrelated Chinese Han adult females from the region of Suzhou city of China were recruited from an ongoing project with original aim of investigating genetic and genomic factors of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using multi-omics strategies. All the study subjects were excluded from serious diseases involving vital organs (brain, liver, kidney, heart or lung).