Liu, Qian
Zhang, Peng
Wang, Depeng
Gu, Weihong
Wang, Kai
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (HG006465)
Article History
Received: 7 December 2016
Accepted: 30 June 2017
First Online: 18 July 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the China-Japan Friendship Hospital and was conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants before enrollment.
: All patient information was anonymized at source and unique ID codes were used to identify cases. Publication of de-identified results from all consenting participants was approved.
: PZ and DW are employees of Nextomics Bioscences and KW is an advisor for Nextomics Biosciences. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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