Gordon, Hannah M.
Majithia, Neil
MacDonald, Patrick E.
Fox, Jocelyn E. Manning
Sharma, Poonam R.
Byrne, Frances L.
Hoehn, Kyle L.
Evans-Molina, Carmella
Langman, Linda
Brayman, Kenneth L.
Nunemaker, Craig S. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2894-3388
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK089182)
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (DK093954)
Article History
Received: 5 January 2017
Accepted: 27 March 2017
First Online: 12 April 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: All studies were approved by the Human Research Ethics Board at the University of Alberta (Pro00001754, Pro00013094) for donors from Site 1 and by University of Virginia Institutional Review Board approved protocol #14904 for donors from Site 2.
: Informed consent of the donor and their family, including for use of organs for research, was obtained by the local organ procurement agency prior to organ retrieval.