Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia (FP036-2015A)
University Malaya Frontier Research Grant 2017 (FG015-17AFR)
Article History
Received: 27 April 2018
Accepted: 18 September 2018
First Online: 26 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics to use human blood samples and experiment procedures were approved by University of Malaya Medical Centre Medical Ethics Committee (MEC ref. no: 817.18). The volunteers gave their consent for the use of their blood in the study.
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