Klaver, Andrea C.
Coffey, Mary P.
Bennett, David A.
Loeffler, David A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01AG17917, P30AG10161, R01AG15819)
Article History
Received: 24 August 2017
Accepted: 30 October 2017
First Online: 24 November 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures involving study subjects were performed within the framework of the Religious Orders Study or the Rush Memory and Aging Project, and were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, IL, USA). All subjects who participated in the Religious Orders Study or the Rush Memory and Aging Project signed an informed consent and an Anatomical Gift Act for organ donation. No individuals with dementia were enrolled. All procedures relating to the subjects in these studies were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments. The present study, which was restricted to measurement of anti-tau antibodies in de-identified serum samples (no patient-related procedures), was given exempt status by the Institutional Review Board of Beaumont Health (Royal Oak, MI, USA).
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests relating to this study.