Guo, Song
Huang, Shuyun
Jiang, Xi
Hu, Haiyang
Han, Dingding
Moreno, Carlos S.
Fairbrother, Genevieve L.
Hughes, David A.
Stoneking, Mark
Khaitovich, Philipp
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (91331203)
National One Thousand Foreign Experts Plan (WQ20123100078)
Max Planck Society
Wellcome Investigator Award (202802/Z/16/Z)
Article History
Received: 28 July 2020
Accepted: 22 March 2021
First Online: 20 April 2021
Declarations
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: All placentas were collected in October and November of 2006 at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The ethical approval for the study was issued by the Northside Hospital Institutional Review Board (NSH #804), with the written informed consent of the donors and in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki agreement.
: Not applicable. No individual personal data are included in this study. Data analyses are presented in aggregate using anonymized miRNA data, with no means of tracing the results and the data back to the individual.
: The authors declare no conflict of interest. One of the authors (P.K.) is on the editorial board of BMC Genomics.