ST participated in the design of the study, organised the implementation and supervision, supervised data collection and entry, and compiled the initial draft paper.
KF, ER, SAM assisted in study design and supervision, data management and analysis and preparation of the manuscript.
BV was involved in overall study design and supervision, data analysis, and manuscript preparation and revision.
How-Ran Guo was in charge of study supervision, data analysis and interpretation, and paper revision.
SP, conception and design, supervision, data collection and analysis, assessment of cerebrovascular lesions, writing of manuscript draft, critical manuscript revision, and final approval of the manuscript.
Specific conditions are given in the legend accompanying Figure 4. JFA made cDNA library, supervised DNA sequencing and RACE extensions, contributed to work supervision, data analysis and manuscript writing.
WL and RAC were involved in supervision data analysis and interpretation.
He participated in designing the study, data collection supervision, data cleaning, and conducted most of the analysis and writing.
DN and CS have assisted AN in fieldwork supervision, data cleaning and drafting of the manuscript.
ELK and MHL performed the experiments, KDC and DBA provided the liver and surgical samples respectively SBP was responsible for supervision, data analyses and obtaining funding for these experiments.
