Cronjé, H. Toinét
Elliott, Hannah R.
Nienaber-Rousseau, Cornelie
Pieters, Marlien
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00011/5)
National Research Foundation (106264)
Newton Fund (AMS-NAF1-Pieters)
Article History
Received: 18 September 2019
Accepted: 30 December 2019
First Online: 7 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for the 2015 data collection of the PURE-SA-NW study was granted by the Health Research Ethics Committee of the North-West University (NWU-00016-10-A1, NWU-00119-17-A1). All participants provided written informed consent, including consent for genetic/epigenetic analysis. All procedures described were performed in accordance with the revised version of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 [CitationRef removed].
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.