Vázquez-Del Mercado, Mónica
Gómez-Bañuelos, Eduardo
Navarro-Hernández, Rosa Elena
Pizano-Martinez, Oscar
Saldaña-Millán, Adan
Chavarria-Avila, Efrain
Gonzalez-Rosas, Lorena
Andrade-Ortega, Lilia
Saavedra, Miguel Angel
Vera-Lastra, Olga Lidia
Jara, Luis Javier
Medrano-Ramírez, Gabriel
Cruz-Reyes, Claudia
García-De la Torre, Ignacio
Escarra-Senmarti, Marta
Anjos, Lisiane Maria Enriconi-Dos
Basu, Anamika
Albesa, Roger
Mahler, Michael
Casiano, Carlos A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (5P20MD006988)
Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG-CA-703, UDG-CA-701)
Article History
Received: 7 November 2016
Accepted: 17 November 2016
First Online: 24 November 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: CAC received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through grant 5P20MD006988. MVDM received funding from the University of Guadalajara through grants UDG-CA-703 (Immunology and Rheumatology) and UDG-CA-701 (Aging, Immunometabolism, and Oxidative Stress).
: Dr. Ignacio Garcia De La Torre is an employee of Immuno-Mex (Guadalajara, Mexico), a company that distributes reagents and equipment for clinical and diagnostic laboratories. Dr. Michael Mahler and Mr. Roger Albesa are employees of Inova Diagnostics (San Diego, USA), a company that specializes on the development of autoimmune technologies and diagnostic markers used in clinical laboratories and hospitals. For the remaining authors none were declared.
: 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. The studies with human subjects presented in this article were approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the University of Guadalajara and Loma Linda University. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study.