Benyeogor, Ifeyinwa
Simoneaux, Tankya
Wu, Yuehao
Lundy, Stephanie
George, Zenas
Ryans, Khamia
McKeithen, Danielle
Pais, Roshan
Ellerson, Debra
Lorenz, W. Walter
Omosun, Tolulope
Thompson, Winston
Eko, Francis O.
Black, Carolyn M.
Blas-Machado, Uriel
Igietseme, Joseph U.
He, Qing
Omosun, Yusuf https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4759-6254
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1SC2HD086066-01A1)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (1SC1AII03041-01A1)
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (8G12MD007602)
Article History
Received: 27 August 2018
Accepted: 29 January 2019
First Online: 18 February 2019
Competing interest
: The authors declare no competing interest, and that the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors have deposited the raw sequences and processed data in the NCBI Geo webpage.
: The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM-IACUC) approved the animal care and use protocol (# 16–24), which we followed in this study.
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