Luo, Jing
Yao, Jian-Feng
Deng, Xiao-Fei
Zheng, Xiao-Dan
Jia, Min
Wang, Yue-Qin
Huang, Yan
Zhu, Jian-Hua
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81502222)
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2013CFB370)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016M602311)
Article History
Received: 25 October 2017
Accepted: 31 January 2018
First Online: 9 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All experimental procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Written informed consent was obtained for all patient samples. The biological samples were collected from patients with breast cancer at Wuhan No.1 Hospital (during 2014–2015). The control samples were obtained from the healthy volunteers. The study protocol was performed according to the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the ethics committees at the Wuhan No.1 Hospital.
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