Maini, I.
Ivanovski, I.
Djuric, O.
Caraffi, S. G.
Errichiello, E.
Marinelli, M.
Franchi, F.
Bizzarri, V.
Rosato, S.
Pollazzon, M.
Gelmini, C.
Malacarne, M.
Fusco, C.
Gargano, G.
Bernasconi, S.
Zuffardi, O.
Garavelli, L.
Article History
Received: 21 August 2017
Accepted: 21 February 2018
First Online: 9 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: According to the national laws, ethics approval by the locally appointed Ethics Committee was not required because: no intervention was applied; no identifiable private information was collected; patients underwent only routine diagnostic procedures, according to current guidelines of the Italian Society of Human Genetics; and an anonymized dataset was analysed.
: Not applicable.This is a retrospective, observational study. At the time when the patients were clinically examined and molecular tests were carried out, the following elements of consent were required of the parents: consent to have personal data dealt with, consent to have genetic data treated, consent to research, consent to the execution of genetic test, on condition that the parents received an information sheet on the genetic test and a verbal explanation.
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