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Outside the Submitted Work: personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, personal fees from Ethicon, personal fees from Globus Medical, personal fees from Medical Device Business Services, personal fees from Mirus, personal fees from NuVasive, personal fees from Orthofix, personal fees from Stryker, personal fees from Zimmer Biomet. Suken A. Shah, MD, During the Conduct of the Study: grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation. Outside the Submitted Work: personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine. Firoz Miyanji, MD, During the Conduct of the Study: grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation. Outside the Submitted Work: personal fees from Depuy Synthes Spine, personal fees from Stryker Spine, personal fees from Zimmer Biomet. Patrick J. Cahill, MD, During the Conduct of the Study: grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation. Outside the Submitted Work: personal fees from NuVasive, other from Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery\u2014America, other from Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America, from Scoliosis Research Society, other from Spine Deformity. Vidyadhar V. Upasani, MD, During the Conduct of the Study: grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation. Outside the Submitted Work: personal fees from OrthoPediatrics, personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, grants from EOS Imaging, grants from nView, personal fees from Orthofix, personal fees from Wolter Kluwer Health. Peter O. Newton, MD, During the Conduct of the Study: grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation. Outside the Submitted Work: grants and other from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, other from Rady Children's Specialists, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from DePuy Synthes Spine, grants and other from SRS, grants from EOS imaging, personal fees from Thieme Publishing, grants from NuVasive, other from Electrocore, personal fees from Cubist, other from International Pediatric Orthopedic Think Tank, grants, non-financial support and other from Orthopediatrics, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Stryker\/K2M, grants and non-financial support from Alphatech, grants from Mazor Robotics, personal fees from MiRus, personal fees from Globus Medical, personal fees from Pacira, from Scoliosis Research Society. 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