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Rare variant of HSPG2 is not involved in the development of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: evidence from a large-scale replication study

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Published Online: 2019-01-15

Published Print: 2019-12

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Authors

Xia, Chao

Xu, Leilei

Xue, Bingchuan

Sheng, Fei

Qiu, Yong

Zhu, Zezhang
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81501849, No.81661168013, No.81171672, No.81772304 & No. 81501932)

Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20150099)

Nanjing Medical Science and technology development Foundation (Grant No. YKK15059)
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Article History

Received: 5 April 2018

Accepted: 4 January 2019

First Online: 15 January 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Independent Ethics Committee (IEC) of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital (The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School) at Zhongshan Road 321, Nanjing 210,008, China. All subjects provided informed consent to take part in the study. Written informed consent was obtained from the parents of the participants in this study that are under 18 years old.

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: The corresponding author Zezhang Zhu is a member of the Editorial Board of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.

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