Legrand, Catherine
Ahmed, Usman
Anwar, Attia
Rajpoot, Kashif
Pasha, Sabah
Lambert, Cécile
Davidson, Rose K.
Clark, Ian M.
Thornalley, Paul J.
Henrotin, Yves
Rabbani, Naila http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5819-2506
Funding for this research was provided by:
Warwick Impact Fund
Val Smith’s Legacy gift (Val Smith’s Legacy gift)
Walloon government programme (Cwality Multicart number 1318276)
Article History
Received: 19 January 2018
Accepted: 29 May 2018
First Online: 22 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for this work was sought and obtained from local ethics committees at Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, and West Midlands Regional Ethics Committee, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, and National Research Ethics Service Committee East of England, Cambridge South, UK. The collection of samples from patients and healthy subjects was done with informed consent. Sample collection and use were approved by the local medical ethics committee and were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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