Deng, Wei
Tan, Xiaojun
Zhou, Qian
Ai, Zhen
Liu, Wenting
Chen, Wei
Yu, Xueqing
Yang, Qiongqiong
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81370786)
Sun Yat-Sen University Clinical Research 5010 Program (2007007)
Article History
Received: 5 August 2017
Accepted: 22 January 2018
First Online: 7 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by Institutional Committee of Ethics (ICE) for Clinical Research and Animal Trials, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (Approval No. [2016] 215). All participants involved in the study were informed by the physicians that their medical records and clinical characteristics would be used for the research before they did renal biopsy and signed the ICF. All participants agreed and authorized the researchers to used their de-identified records for this study.
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