Fujita, Ai
Hayamizu, Kengo
Yoshihara, Tatsuya http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5065-7356
Zaitsu, Masayoshi
Shiraishi, Fumie
Arima, Hisatomi
Matsuo, Kazumasa
Shiokawa, Kanako
Setoguchi, Hidekazu
Sasaguri, Toshiyuki
Article History
Received: 25 April 2018
Accepted: 3 August 2018
First Online: 13 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for this prospective observational study was provided by the Independent Ethics Committee of Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan (approval number 12-55), and registered in the UMIN Clinical Trial Registration (Registration number UMIN000009015). The study was conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki, Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Research, Japan, 2008, and Ethical Guidelines for Human Genome/Gene Analysis Research, Japan, 2008. Patients were recruited from October 2012 to September 2013, and written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
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