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Ethics approval and consent to participate This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Universidade Federal deMinas Gerais under the protocol number 260/09. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent (and permission to use images) was obtained from all participants included in the study.