Sio, Yang Yie
Pang, Sze Lei
Say, Yee-How
Teh, Keng Foo
Wong, Yi Ru
Shah, Smyrna Moti Rawanan
Reginald, Kavita
Chew, Fook Tim http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1337-5146
Funding for this research was provided by:
Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (R-154-000-191-112, R-154-000-404-112, R-154-000-553-112, R-154-000-565-112, R-154-000-630-112, R-154-000-A08-592, R-154-000-A27-597, R-154-000-A91-592, R-154-000-A95-592)
Biomedical Research Council (BMRC/01/1/21/18/077, BMRC/04/1/21/19/315)
Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN-06-006, SIgN-08-020)
National Medical Research Council (NMRC/1150/2008)
Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) (H17/01/a0/008)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2020
Accepted: 28 January 2021
First Online: 13 July 2021
Compliance with Ethical Standards
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Ethical approval for participant recruitment in Singapore was granted from the Institutional Review Board of NUS (NUS-IRB Ref-Code: 07–023, 09–256, 10–445, 13–075, B-10-343, and H-18-036) and the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review Board (B/04/055). While in Malaysia, ethical approval was granted from the Scientific and Ethical Review Committee (SERC) of UTAR (Ref-code: U/SERC/03/2016), as well as from the Research Ethics Committee at Sunway University (SU), Malaysia (Ref. code: SUREC 2019/029). All participants (or parent/guardian for those below 21 years) signed informed consent forms, and the study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.