Zhang, Qian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0769-1057
Marioni, Riccardo E
Robinson, Matthew R
Higham, Jon
Sproul, Duncan
Wray, Naomi R
Deary, Ian J
McRae, Allan F
Visscher, Peter M
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (1010374, 1046880, 1113400)
NHMRC Fellowship Scheme (1078037, 1078901, 1083656)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Medical Research Council
Article History
Received: 15 March 2018
Accepted: 27 September 2018
First Online: 22 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Following written informed consent, venesected whole blood was collected for DNA extraction in both LBC1921 and LBC1936. Ethics permission for the LBC1921 was obtained from the Lothian Research Ethics Committee (wave 1 LREC/1998/4/183). Ethics permission for the LBC1936 was obtained from the Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee for Scotland (wave 1 MREC/01/0/56), the Lothian Research Ethics Committee (wave 1 LREC/2003/2/29) and the Scotland A Research Ethics Committee (waves 2 and 3 07/MRE00/58). Research was carried out in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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