Funding source: Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Award Identifier / Grant number: Measures to combat the coronavirus SARS CoV-2 pandemic in the field of medical research, special funding programme COVID-19 (Chapt. 1499 TG93, MA10)
Acknowledgments
We thank Ameli Götz for aliquoting the samples and the isolation of cfDNA, Sonika Rao for conducting the routine laboratory data query and Caterina Hassler for recording of clinical symptoms. Moreover, we thank Annegret Reinschreid and Nadine Fricker (Institute of Human Genetics, Division of GenomicsLife & Brain, Research Centre, University Hospital of Bonn) for performing the epigenetic analyses.
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Research ethics: The local Institutional Review Board deemed the study exempt from review. Institutional Review Board (2020-541N) approved the study protocol and study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: The authors state no Competing of interest.
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Research funding: Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, Baden-Württemberg, Germany: “Measures to combat the coronavirus SARS CoV-2 pandemic in the field of medical research”, special funding programme COVID-19 (Chap. 1499 TG 93), (MA10).
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Data availability: The data presented in this work are available on request from the corresponding author.
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