About the Authors

Daniel Y. Lee

Affiliations Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Tatiana Shatseva

Affiliations Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Zina Jeyapalan

Affiliations Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

William W. Du

Affiliation Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

Zhaoqun Deng

Affiliations Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Burton B. Yang

byang@sri.utoronto.ca

Affiliations Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BBY. Performed the experiments: DYL TS ZJ WD ZD BBY. Analyzed the data: DYL BBY. Wrote the paper: BBY.