Numata, Noriko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0117-7740
Nakagawa, Akiko
Yoshioka, Kazuko
Isomura, Kayoko
Matsuzawa, Daisuke
Setsu, Rikukage
Nakazato, Michiko
Shimizu, Eiji
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H00039)
Article History
Received: 28 May 2020
Accepted: 8 December 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures in the current study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine approved the study (no. 3431). The study was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. In case that the patient was a minor under the age of 18, an informed consent was obtained from their patient/caregiver. In addition, the patients (adults) with ‘ASD’ were able to give informed consent on their own (because of the severity of the disease).
: The authors do not have any competing interests to report.