Cuthbertson, Leah
Walker, Alan W.
Oliver, Anna E.
Rogers, Geraint B.
Rivett, Damian W.
Hampton, Thomas H.
Ashare, Alix
Elborn, J. Stuart
De Soyza, Anthony
Carroll, Mary P.
Hoffman, Lucas R.
Lanyon, Clare
Moskowitz, Samuel M.
O’Toole, George A.
Parkhill, Julian
Planet, Paul J.
Teneback, Charlotte C.
Tunney, Michael M.
Zuckerman, Jonathan B.
Bruce, Kenneth D.
van der Gast, Christopher J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Environment Research Council (NE/H019456/1)
Article History
Received: 19 September 2019
Accepted: 20 February 2020
First Online: 2 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by either local research ethics committee (UK) or institutional review board (USA) as follows, with participating centre(s) then committee/board and approval number in parentheses: Bedford, and Lebanon, NH, USA (Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Institutional Review Board, CPHS # 23809); Belfast (Northern Ireland), Dublin (Ireland), Warsaw (Poland), London (UK) (Office for Research Ethics Northern Ireland, 06/NIR01/11); Boston, MA, USA (Massachusetts General Hospital Institutional Review Board, 2011P000620); Burlington, VT, USA (University of Vermont Institutional Review Board, M13-160); New York, NY, USA (Columbia University Institutional Review Board, IRB#AAAE8112); Newcastle, UK (County Durham and Tees Valley Research Ethics Committee, Res-11/NE/0291); Portland, ME, USA (Maine Medical Center Institutional Review Board, IRB # 4170); Seattle, WA, USA (Seattle Children’s Hospital Institutional Review Board, IRB #12811) and Southampton, UK (Southampton and South West Hampshire Research Ethics Committee, 06/Q1704/26).
: SMM is now an employee of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and may hold stock and/or stock options in that company. JP has a paid consultancy with Next Gen Diagnostics LLC. The other authors have no conflicts to declare.