Reimer, Christian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-2511
Ha, Ngoc-Thuy
Sharifi, Ahmad Reza
Geibel, Johannes
Mikkelsen, Lars Friis
Schlather, Martin
Weigend, Steffen
Simianer, Henner
Article History
Received: 25 June 2019
Accepted: 18 February 2020
First Online: 16 April 2020
Ethics approval
: The blood samples were provided by the individual partner organisations and breeders of the Göttingen Minipigs as part of the scientific collaboration and taken under national legislation and individually approved:Japan: Blood collections performed in our facility were reviewed/approved by Animal Welfare Committee of the Ina MP Breeding Center, Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd.NY/USA: Blood collection performed at our site in the United States was done in accordance with procedures approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at Marshall BioResources.Denmark: The blood sampling was approved by the Danish Animal Experiment Inspectorate under licenses number 2012-15-2934-00615.Germany: Blood sampling for this study was approved by the animal welfare body (Tierschutzbeauftragte/ Tierschutzkommission) of the University of Göttingen and is documented under reference E1–20.All partner organisations have given written informed consent to use the animals in the study, as being owners of the individual animals.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that there are no competing interests.