Deyell, Rebecca J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3315-4383
Desai, Sunil
Gallivan, Andrea
Lim, Alecia
Sawyer, Michael B.
Heymsfield, Steven B. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1127-9425
Shen, Wei
Baracos, Vickie E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9609-1001
Funding for this research was provided by:
BC Children’s Hospital Foundation (Telethon grant)
Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation (Hair Massacure)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK42618, R21DK73720)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Article History
Received: 13 October 2022
Revised: 25 January 2023
Accepted: 26 January 2023
First Online: 17 February 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Research ethics boards of the two participating centers approved this study (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: Children’s and Women’s Research Ethics Board, H12-03232; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada: Health Research Board of Alberta-Cancer, HREBA.CC-16-0102). The healthy pediatric cohort data was obtained from a prior study which was approved by the Institutional Review Board of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital (IRB 00-069) and each subject gave written consent to participate [CitationRef removed].