Mok, Chi Chiu
Soliman, Samar
Ho, Ling Yin
Mohamed, Fatma A.
Mohamed, Faten Ismail
Mohan, Chandra
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01 DK81872 NIH)
Article History
Received: 3 February 2017
Accepted: 18 December 2017
First Online: 11 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This work was approved by the Research and Ethics Committee of Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong (CREC/848/10). Informed written consent was obtained from all the participants and the consent forms were held by the first author’s institution.
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