Stoll, Matthew L.
Guleria, Saurabh
Mannion, Melissa L.
Young, Daniel W.
Royal, Stuart A.
Cron, Randy Q.
Vaid, Yoginder N.
Article History
Received: 27 October 2017
Accepted: 12 January 2018
First Online: 24 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval for this study protocol and data use was obtained through Human Use Review of the Institutional Review Boards (IRB) of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For the controls, informed consent was obtained from all guardians as well as subjects age 14+, while assent was obtained from subjects age 7–13. A waiver of consent for usage of the retrospective data from the JIA subjects was obtained.
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