Hu, Jie
Xu, Xin
Li, Jun
Jiang, Yu
Hong, Xiumei
Rexrode, Kathryn M.
Wang, Guoying
Hu, Frank B.
Zhang, Hongmei
Karmaus, Wilfried J.
Wang, Xiaobin
Liang, Liming
Article History
Received: 2 March 2022
Accepted: 6 February 2023
First Online: 25 March 2023
Declarations
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: Boston Birth Cohort (BBC): The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Boston Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is also registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03228875). Written informed consent was obtained from all the study mothers in the BBC. Isle of Wight birth cohort (IOWBC): For the 18-year follow-up, ethical approval was given by the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and SE Hampshire Local Research Ethics Committee (No. 06/Q1701/34, dated 06/16/2006). The study protocol for post-adolescence data and studies was approved by the Internal Review Board at the University of Memphis (FWA00006815, IRB ID: #3917). Written informed consent was obtained from parents during in-person visits. For participants assessed by phone interview, consent was documented on the consent form with the name of the person giving consent, and the name and signature of the person taking the form were recorded. For the offspring of mothers, we have received ethics approval from the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and SE Hampshire Local Research Ethics Committee (Study Title: A Study of Epigenetic Driven Immunological Changes in the Development of Asthma and Allergy in Infancy).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.