Myers, Jennifer S.
Vallega, Karin A.
White, Jason
Yu, Kaixian
Yates, Clayton C.
Sang, Qing-Xiang Amy
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (G12 RR03059-21A1)
National Cancer Institute (R21 CA188799-01, U54 CA118623)
Florida State University
U.S. Department of Defense (PC120913)
Article History
Received: 28 December 2015
Accepted: 28 June 2017
First Online: 11 July 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Not applicable. This work used existing and de-identified human cell lines established many years ago as reported in the cited reference [] by Theodore et al. The use of these cell lines for this study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) at Tuskegee University. This work does not involve in making any new cell lines. This Human Subjects Research falls under Exemption 4 as described in 45 CFR § 46.101(b)(4) according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. “Research involving the collection or study of existing data, documents, records, pathological specimens, or diagnostic specimens, if these sources are publically available or if the information is recorded by the investigator in such a manner that subjects cannot be identified, directly or through identifiers linked to the subjects.”
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