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Outside the Submitted Work: personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine. <u>Suken A. Shah, MD:<\/u> During the Conduct of the Study: grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation. Outside the Submitted Work: personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine. <u>Firoz Miyanji, MD:<\/u> 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. <u>Amer F. Samdani, MD:<\/u> 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 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. <u>Peter O. 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