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As next steps, we need larger and longer studies involving more diverse groups of patients
and Rasmus Jorgensen (Novo Nordisk, Denmark) and Mohammed Ayoub (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), for kindly providing them with plasmids used in this study and valuable advice
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