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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Clinical population genetic studies of hereditary diseases in the pediatric population of North Ossetia – Alania
1 Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia
2 North-Ossetian State Medical Academy, Vladikavkaz, Russia
3 Republican Children’s Clinical Hospital, Vladikavkaz, Russia
4 Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering, branch of the National Research Nuclear University (NRNU) MEPhI, Obninsk, Russia
5 Center of Protection of Motherhood and Childhood of the City of Sochi of the Ministry of Health of Krasnodar Krai, Sochi, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Rena A. Zinchenko
Moskvorechie, 1, 115522, Moscow, Russia; ur.liam@oknehcnizaner
Funding: the study was supported as part of the State Assignment of the Research Centre for Medical Genetics and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania.
Author contribution: Zinchenko RA, Tebieva IS, Kadyshev VV, Murtazina AF, Borovikov AO, Marakhonov AV, Getoeva ZK — patient examination, making the diagnosis, obtaining the informed consent, and biomaterial collection; Zinchenko RA, Tebieva IS — acquisition of data on the number of patients; Zinchenko RA, Tebieva IS, Kutsev SI — study planning, statistical analysis, manuscript writing; Marakhonov AV — analysis of molecular genetic tests; Tebieva IS, Marakhonov AV, Zinchenko RA — editing; Zinchenko RA, Kutsev SI — general management, editing.
Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Research Centre for Medical Genetics (protocol No. 7 dated 20 December 2017), it was compliant with the standards of Good Clinical Practice and evidence-based medicine. All patients submitted informed consent to participate in the study.




