About the Authors

Jee Lee

Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Andrew J. Sandford

Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

John E. Connett

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jin Yan

Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Tammy Mui

Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Yuexin Li

Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Denise Daley

Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nicholas R. Anthonisen

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Angela Brooks-Wilson

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

S. F. Paul Man

Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Don D. Sin

don.sin@hli.ubc.ca

Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DDS AJS. Performed the experiments: JL YL TM. Analyzed the data: DDS JL JY DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJS JEC NRA DDS SFP ABW. Wrote the paper: JL AJS JEC JY TM YL DD NRA SFP DDS.