Nouraie, Mehdi
Ashktorab, Hassan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4048-4666
Atefi, Nazli
Azam, Saman
Tarjoman, Taraneh
Lee, Edward
Shokrani, Babak
Afsari, Ali
Soleimani, Akbar
Laiyemo, Adeyinka O.
Singh, Sanmeet
Brim, Hassan
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (G12MD007597)
Article History
Received: 24 November 2018
Accepted: 16 May 2019
First Online: 24 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Howard University. Written consent was waived by the institutional review board because of the retrospective study design (IRB approval reference number 06-MED-39).
: Not applicable.
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