Competing interests
myopathy, MM
MYOPATHY
SP, MM, GB, SC, MRH, RC, LB, and JA work in the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) of the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford. The Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit has a staff policy of not taking any personal payments directly or indirectly from industry (with reimbursement sought only for the costs of travel and accommodation to attend scientific meetings). CTSU has received research grants from Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, The Medicines Company, Merck, Mylan, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Schering, and Solvay, which are governed by University of Oxford contracts that protect the researchers’ independence. SP and RC are co-inventors of a genetic test for statin-related myopathy risk but receive no income from it.