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Common genomic variation in the FER gene: useful to stratify patients with sepsis due to pneumonia?

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Acknowledgments

The project was supported by the Paul-Martini-Sepsis Research Group, funded by the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (ProExcellence; grant PE 108-2); the public funded Thuringian Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research (STIFT) and the German Sepsis Society (GSS); the Jena Center of Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC), funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; 01 EO 1002). The VISEP and MAXSEP trials from the SepNet Study Group had been supported by a BMBF grant (01 KI 0106) and by unrestricted grants from B. Braun, HemoCue, Novo Nordisk, Astra Zeneca GmbH, Wedel, Germany and Bayer HealthCare, Leverkusen, Germany.

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This study was approved by the ethics committee at each participating institution of the VISEP and MAXSEP trials and has therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.

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    1. Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC), Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

      F. Schöneweck, F. M. Brunkhorst & A Scherag

    2. Research Group Clinical Epidemiology, CSCC, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

      F. Schöneweck & A Scherag

    3. Medical Department, Clinical Trial Centre Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

      E. Kuhnt

    4. Medical Department, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

      M. Scholz

    5. Medical Department, LIFE Research Center (Leipzig Interdisciplinary Research Cluster of Genetic Factors, Phenotypes and Environment), University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

      M. Scholz

    6. Center for Clinical Studies, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

      F. M. Brunkhorst

    7. Head of Paul-Martini-Clinical Sepsis Research Unit, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

      F. M. Brunkhorst

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    M. Scholz, F. M. Brunkhorst and A. Scherag contributed equally to this work.

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    Schöneweck, F., Kuhnt, E., Scholz, M. et al. Common genomic variation in the FER gene: useful to stratify patients with sepsis due to pneumonia?. Intensive Care Med 41, 1379–1381 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3829-7

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