Arima, Hiroaki
Nishimura, Takayuki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-7512
Koirala, Sweta
Nakano, Masayuki
Ito, Hiromu
Ichikawa, Tomo
Pandey, Kishor
Pandey, Basu Dev
Yamamoto, Taro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H04659, 19H05737, 23H02568, 24K02114)
Article History
Received: 30 July 2024
Accepted: 28 September 2024
First Online: 15 October 2024
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the ethics committees of the Nepal Health Research Council (Approval # 142/2016) and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University (# 150226137–8). Each participant in this study was provided with detailed information about the research and confidentiality before written informed consent was obtained. Ethics approval for genetic analysis was also obtained from the ethics committees of the Nepal Health Research Council (Approval # 1106/2019) and the Human Genome Ethics Committee of Nagasaki University (Approval # G160127-01–22).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.