Karmaus, Wilfried http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2684-1492
Mukherjee, Nandini
Janjanam, Vimala Devi
Chen, Su
Zhang, Hongmei
Roberts, Graham
Kurukulaaratchy, Ramesh J.
Arshad, Hasan
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01 HL132321, R01 HL082925)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01 AI061471, R01 AI091905)
Article History
Received: 30 January 2019
Accepted: 6 May 2019
First Online: 22 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approvals for the Isle of Wight study were obtained from the Isle of Wight Local Research Ethics Committee (recruitment, 1, 2 and 4 years) and National Research Ethics Service, NRES Committee South Central – Southampton B (10 and 18 years) (06/Q1701/34). Written informed consent was obtained from parents to enroll newborns and at subsequent follow-up written informed consent was obtained from parents, participants, or both. At the University of Memphis, the internal review board first approved the project (FWA00006815) in 2012 and reviewed it yearly since then (IRB ID: 2423).
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